Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his…

Which arrow did Eros discharge into the breast of Apollo, thereby inspiring his ardent affection?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eros · What happens: arrow, discharge, inspire · To what, where: breast, ardent affection

This is exam question 3 of lesson 509 «Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his love affairs go wrong» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 arrow	nsubj
2	arrow	arrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 discharge	aux
4	Eros	Eros	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 discharge	nsubj
5	discharge	discharge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arrow	ccomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 breast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 breast	det
8	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discharge	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Apollo	case
10	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 breast	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inspiring	punct
12	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	13 inspiring	advmod
13	inspiring	inspire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 arrow	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 affection	nmod:poss
15	ardent	ardent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 affection	amod
16	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inspiring	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 arrow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrow	present					tree rules
2	discharge	past · do-support	Eros		the breast of Apollo		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	inspire	gerund		Eros's ardent affection		thereby property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus affection=Experiencer

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 leaden dart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dart	det
2	leaden	leaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dart	amod
3	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The golden shaft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shaft	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shaft	amod
3	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The golden arrow of love that struck Apollo's heart and set his passion alight

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arrow	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arrow	amod
3	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrow	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 struck	nsubj
7	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrow	acl:relcl
8	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 heart	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Apollo	case
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 struck	cc
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 passion	nmod:poss
14	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obj
15	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the golden arrow of love	Apollo's heart					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	set	past	the golden arrow of love	arrow's passion				alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient passion=Result

Option 4

The golden shaft that Eros fired from his bow into Apollo's breast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shaft	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shaft	amod
3	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fired	mark
5	Eros	Eros	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fired	nsubj
6	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bow	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bow	nmod:poss
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 breast	case
11	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 breast	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Apollo	case
13	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past	the golden shaft			Eros's bow		into Apollo's breast	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from bow=Initial_Location into breast=Destination

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