Exam question 1 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…
Identify the divinity who, according to the text, conveyed Persephone to the lower world.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, divinity · What happens: identify, accord, convey · To what, where: divinity, Persephone, lower world
This is exam question 1 of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 divinity | det |
| 3 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 conveyed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conveyed | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 text | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 text | det |
| 9 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 text | punct |
| 11 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divinity | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Persephone | persephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the divinity | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent divinity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | convey | past | the divinity | Persephone | the lower world | accord the text | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent persephone=Topic to world=Recipient |
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
Hermes, who guided souls to the underworld realm of the dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guided | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guided | nsubj |
| 4 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guided | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 realm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 realm | det |
| 8 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 realm | compound |
| 9 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dead | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dead | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 realm | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | Hermes | souls | the underworld realm of the dead | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soul=Theme to realm=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Aides, ruler of the underworld
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aides | aide | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruler | punct |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aides | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 underworld | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 underworld | det |
| 6 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ruler | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Aides, the dark ruler of the underworld dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aides | aide | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruler | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ruler | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ruler | amod |
| 5 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aides | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 underworld | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 underworld | det |
| 8 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruler | nmod |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 underworld | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hermes, the messenger god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 god | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 god | det |
| 4 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 god | compound |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hermes | appos |
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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