Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is s…

Identify the principal event described in this passage, namely the slaying of the Calydonian boar and the consequent death of Meleager's uncles.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, uncles · What happens: identify, describe, slay, die · To what, where: principal event, passage, Calydonian boar

This is exam question 1 of lesson 513 «Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is slain, the uncles fall, Atalanta's race ends in a trick, and the temple of Artemis burns» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 event	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 event	amod
4	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 event	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 passage	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 passage	det
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 namely	punct
10	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slaying	amod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slaying	det
12	slaying	slaying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passage	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 boar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boar	det
15	Calydonian	Calydonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 boar	compound
16	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slaying	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 death	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 death	det
19	consequent	consequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 death	amod
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passage	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 uncles	case
22	Meleager	Meleager	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 uncles	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Meleager	case
24	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 death	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal event		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme
2	describe	participle		the principal event not said here	this passage and the namely slaying of the Calydonian boar and the consequent death of Meleager's uncles	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	slay			the Calydonian boar		nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient
4	die		Meleager's uncles			nom death «event intransitive»: of=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

The quarrel over the hide at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 quarrel	det
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hide	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hide	det
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarrel	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feast	det
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarrel	nmod

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

Option 2

The hunt and the killing of the boar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunt	det
2	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 killing	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 killing	det
5	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boar	det
8	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill			the boar					nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The slaying of the boar and the deaths of the uncles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slaying	det
2	slaying	slaying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boar	det
5	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slaying	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deaths	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deaths	det
8	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slaying	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 uncles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 uncles	det
11	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deaths	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay			the boar					nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient
2	die		the uncles						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The boar hunt and the murder of his kin, along with the quarrel that led to the feast's ruin

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunt	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	compound
3	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 murder	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 murder	det
6	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kin	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kin	nmod:poss
9	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 murder	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quarrel	punct
11	along	along	ADP	_	14 quarrel	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 quarrel	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 quarrel	det
14	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 led	nsubj
16	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 quarrel	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 ruin	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 feast	det
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ruin	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 feast	case
21	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the quarrel		to the feast's ruin	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ruin=Patient
2	murder			his kin		nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient
3	ruin		the feast			nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent

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