Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…

State the number of days during which Demeter pursued her search prior to encountering Hecate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Demeter · What happens: state, pursue, search, encounter · To what, where: number, Hecate

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pursued	obl
8	Demeter	Demeter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pursued	nsubj
9	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 days	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 search	nmod:poss
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pursued	xcomp
12	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	14 encountering	mark
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 prior	fixed
14	encountering	encounter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 search	advcl
15	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 encountering	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of days		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	pursue	past	Demeter		during days	tree rules
3	search	infinitive	Demeter not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	encounter	gerund	Demeter not said here	Hecate		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hecate=Stimulus

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

Nine days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten days and nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nights	cc
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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

Option 3

Nine nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine days and nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nights	cc
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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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