Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mo…

Which deity is said to have bestowed upon Amphion the lyre by means of which he raised the walls of Thebes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amphion · What happens: say, bestow, mean, raise · To what, where: deity, lyre, walls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 501 «Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mortal women in disguise, and Lycaon plots to test him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 deity	det
2	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 means	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 bestowed	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bestowed	aux
7	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	xcomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 Amphion	case
9	Amphion	Amphion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bestowed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lyre	det
11	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bestowed	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	7 bestowed	obl
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 raised	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 raised	nsubj
17	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 raised	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Thebes	case
21	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		which deity		tree rules
2	bestow	to-infinitive · perfect		the lyre	upon Amphion	tree rules
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	raise	past	Amphion	the walls of Thebes		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wall=Theme of which=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hephaestus, god of the forge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 god	punct
3	god	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hephaestus	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forge	det
6	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 god	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Ares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ares	ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hermes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Eros

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eros	Eros	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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