Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Which deity assumed the form of an elderly woman upon her arrival at Eleusis?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deity · What happens: assume, form, arrive · To what, where: form, elderly woman, Eleusis

This is exam question 1 of lesson 505 «Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby, is interrupted, and the seasons begin» 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 deity	det
2	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assumed	nsubj
3	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 form	det
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assumed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 arrival	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arrival	nmod:poss
12	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Eleusis	case
14	Eleusis	Eleusis	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 arrival	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 assumed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	assume	past	which deity	the form of a elderly woman upon deity's arrival at Eleusis		vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	form			a elderly woman upon deity's arrival at Eleusis		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	arrive		deity		Eleusis	nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

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

Metaneira

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metaneira	Metaneira	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hera	hera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Iris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Demeter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Demeter	demeter	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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