Exam question 1 · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigenia to Aulis?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, summon · To what, where: Clytemnaestra, Iphigenia, Aulis

This is exam question 1 of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Clytemnaestra	Clytemnaestra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 summoning	mark
8	summoning	summon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 give	advcl
9	Iphigenia	Iphigenia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 summoning	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Aulis	case
11	Aulis	Aulis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 summoning	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	which reason	Clytemnaestra					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clytemnaestra=Theme
2	summon	gerund	which reason not said here	Iphigenia	Aulis				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iphigenia=Recipient

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

A festival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 festival	det
2	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The lie that Menelaus had summoned her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 summoned	obj
4	Menelaus	Menelaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 summoned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 summoned	aux
6	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lie	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 summoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past · perfect	Menelaus	the lie					tree rules

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

The pretext that Achilles desired to marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pretext	det
2	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desired	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 desired	mark
4	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 desired	nsubj
5	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 desired	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	past	the pretext						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the pretext not said here	Achilles					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

The claim that Odysseus had demanded her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demanded	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 Odysseus	mark
4	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claim	appos
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 demanded	aux
6	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 demanded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past · perfect · passive		the claim					tree rules

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