Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Phoebus · What happens: be, say, bear · To what, where: god, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 508 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos» 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 island	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 island	det
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 god	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 god	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 god	det
6	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Apollo	punct
9	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Phoebus	nmod:unmarked
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 god	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 born	mark
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 born	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 god	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the god	which island	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Phoebus Apollo	the god not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=Topic
3	bear	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	Phoebus Apollo not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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

Kos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Delos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Ios

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ios	io	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Lemnos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemnos	Lemnos	PROPN	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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