Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus lo…

Which temple originally preserved the Sibylline books before the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: temple · What happens: preserve · To what, where: Sibylline books

This is exam question 2 of lesson 511 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus loses Eurydice twice, then dies, and Apollo's worship is described» 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 temple	det
2	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preserved	nsubj
3	originally	originally	ADV	_	4 preserved	advmod
4	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 books	det
6	Sibylline	sibylline	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 books	amod
7	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 preserved	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preserved	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 preserved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	past	which temple	the Sibylline books			before the fire	originally property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Beneficiary

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 temple of Mars on the Campus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temple	det
2	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Mars	case
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Campus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Campus	det
7	Campus	campus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod

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

Option 2

the temple of Juno at Veii

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temple	det
2	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Juno	case
4	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Veii	case
6	Veii	Veii	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the temple of Jupiter at Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temple	det
2	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Jupiter	case
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod

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

Option 4

the temple of Apollo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temple	det
2	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Apollo	case
4	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 temple	nmod

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

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