Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Hecate and the Moon-Goddesses, p…

What did the oracle foretell for Atalanta should she give herself in marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oracle, Atalanta · What happens: foretell, give · To what, where: Atalanta, marriage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 512 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Hecate and the Moon-Goddesses, part 18: three night and hunt goddesses, then a boar sent in anger» 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	5 foretell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 foretell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oracle	det
4	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foretell	nsubj
5	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 give	mark
7	Atalanta	Atalanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 give	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 foretell	ccomp
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 give	iobj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 marriage	case
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 foretell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foretell	past · do-support	the oracle						tree rules
2	give	should	Atalanta		Atalanta	marriage			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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

bitter loneliness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loneliness	amod
2	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

inevitable misfortune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 misfortune	amod
2	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

unending sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	unending	unending	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sorrow	amod
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

that she would be turned into a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · passive		she		a bear			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into bear=Trajectory

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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