Exam question 4 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Hera and Juno, part 8: Zeus puni…

Which festival honoured Hera at Olympia, and at what intervals was it celebrated?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: festival · What happens: honour, celebrate · To what, where: Hera, Olympia, intervals

This is exam question 4 of lesson 502 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Hera and Juno, part 8: Zeus punishes Lycaon, then Eris's apple starts a quarrel» 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 festival	det
2	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 honoured	nsubj
3	honoured	honour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 honoured	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Olympia	case
6	Olympia	Olympia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 honoured	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 honoured	obl
11	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 celebrated	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 celebrated	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 celebrated	nsubj:pass
14	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 what	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 honoured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour	past	which festival	Hera		Olympia			tree rules
2	celebrate	past · passive		intervals					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

The Panathenaea, every four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Panathenaea	det
2	Panathenaea	Panathenaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 years	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Panathenaea	parataxis

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Herae, at intervals of four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Herae	det
2	Herae	Herae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 intervals	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 intervals	case
5	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Herae	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 intervals	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Herae, a festival of women's races held every four years at Olympia in honour of Hera

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Herae	det
2	Herae	Herae	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 held	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 festival	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 festival	det
5	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Herae	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 races	case
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 races	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 women	case
9	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 festival	nmod
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 years	det
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 held	obl:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Olympia	case
15	Olympia	Olympia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 held	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 honour	case
17	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Hera	case
19	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 honour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the Herae		Olympia	year	in honour of Hera	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at olympia=Location
2	race		women					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent
3	honour			Hera				nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The Olympic Games, dedicated to Zeus, at intervals of four years in the spring

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Games	det
2	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Games	compound
3	Games	Game	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dedicated	punct
5	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Games	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Zeus	case
7	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dedicated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 intervals	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 intervals	case
10	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Games	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 intervals	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 spring	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 intervals	nmod

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

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