Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mo…

What punishment did the gods inflict upon Philemon and Baucis after their death in recognition of their devotion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: punishment, gods · What happens: do, inflict, die, recognize, devote · To what, where: recognition, devotion

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 inflict	nsubj
6	inflict	inflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Philemon	case
8	Philemon	Philemon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 inflict	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Baucis	cc
10	Baucis	Baucis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Philemon	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 death	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 death	nmod:poss
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 recognition	case
15	recognition	recognition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 devotion	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 devotion	nmod:poss
18	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recognition	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	punishment		recognition of gods's devotion	after gods's death		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	inflict	present	the gods				upon Philemon and Baucis	tree rules
3	die		gods = god					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
4	recognize			gods's devotion				nom recognition «state transitive»: of=patient
5	devote		gods = god					nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

transformation into trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 trees	case
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 transformation	nmod

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

Option 2

turned into two oak trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 trees	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trees	nummod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				two oak trees			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory

Option 3

turned into oaks and stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 oaks	case
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stones	cc
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 oaks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				oaks and stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into oak=Trajectory

Option 4

transformation into two trees that stood by the temple for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 trees	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 trees	nummod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 transformation	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trees	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 temple	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temple	det
9	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	two trees				for ages	by the temple	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by temple=Location

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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