Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus lo…

Which people spared the island of Delos when sailing against Greece?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: spare, sail · To what, where: island

This is exam question 3 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spared	nsubj
3	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spared	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Delos	case
7	Delos	Delos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sailing	advmod
9	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spared	advcl
10	against	against	ADP	_	11 Greece	case
11	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sailing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	which people	the island of Delos					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent island=Asset
2	sail	gerund	which people not said here					against Greece	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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

the Carthaginians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Carthaginians	det
2	Carthaginians	Carthaginian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the Athenians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Athenians	det
2	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the Persian king Xerxes and his army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Xerxes	det
2	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Xerxes	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Xerxes	compound
4	Xerxes	xerx	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 army	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 army	nmod:poss
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Xerxes	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Persians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Persians	det
2	Persians	Persian	PROPN	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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