Exam question 4 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

Over which of the Muses was Apollo regarded as leader according to the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leader · What happens: regard, accord · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 4 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 regarded	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Muses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Muses	det
5	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 regarded	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 regarded	aux:pass
7	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 regarded	compound
8	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 leader	case
10	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regarded	obl
11	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 leader	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 according	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 regarded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regard	past · passive						of the Muses; as leader	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as leader=Value
2	accord	gerund	leader not said here					to the passage goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to passage=Goal

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

the Graces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Graces	det
2	Graces	grace	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the Muses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Muses	det
2	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the three Fates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fates	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Fates	nummod
3	Fates	fate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the nine Muses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Muses	det
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Muses	nummod
3	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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