Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

What form did the goddess Eos give to the aged Tithonus at the close of his sufferings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eos · What happens: be, do, give, suffer · To what, where: goddess, aged Tithonus, close

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goddess	det
5	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	Eos	Eos	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 goddess	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Tithonus	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tithonus	det
10	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Tithonus	amod
11	Tithonus	Tithonus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 close	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 close	det
14	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sufferings	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sufferings	nmod:poss
17	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 close	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present					tree rules
2	do	past		the goddess			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddess=Eventuality
3	give	infinitive	Eos	the goddess not said here	the aged Tithonus	the close of Eos's sufferings	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent goddess=Theme to tithonus=Recipient at close=Asset
4	suffer		Eos				nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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

a tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

an old crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crow	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crow	amod
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a cricket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cricket	det
2	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a grasshopper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grasshopper	det
2	grasshopper	grasshopper	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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