Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mo…

By what solemn oath was Zeus bound to fulfil the request made by Semele, the daughter of Cadmus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fulfil, make · To what, where: Zeus bound, request

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 oath	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 oath	nsubj
3	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oath	amod
4	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bound	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bound	cop
6	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bound	compound
7	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fulfil	mark
9	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bound	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 request	det
11	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fulfil	obj
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 request	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Semele	case
14	Semele	Semele	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 daughter	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 daughter	det
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Semele	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Cadmus	case
19	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Zeus bound	by solemn oath	tree rules
2	fulfil	to-infinitive	the request		tree rules
3	make	participle	the request not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

the sacred river Acheron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 river	appos

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Styx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Styx	det
2	Styx	Styx	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Acheron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acheron	Acheron	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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