Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Pallas-Athene, part 9: Athene's…

Which object did Athene discard after her unflattering reflection was observed in the fountain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, observe · To what, where: Athene discard, unflattering reflection, fountain

This is exam question 3 of lesson 503 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Pallas-Athene, part 9: Athene's gifts and her shield» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 discard	compound
5	discard	discard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 observed	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 reflection	nmod:poss
8	unflattering	unflattering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reflection	amod
9	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 observed	aux:pass
11	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 fountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fountain	det
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	Athene discard					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discard=Eventuality
2	observe	past · passive		object's unflattering reflection		the fountain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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

Mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Lyre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lyre	lyre	NOUN	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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