Exam question 2 · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

What form did the sacrifice take in Sparta after Lycurgus intervened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sacrifice · What happens: be, do, take, intervene · To what, where: Sparta, Lycurgus

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sacrifice	det
5	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Sparta	case
8	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 Lycurgus	case
10	Lycurgus	Lycurgus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	intervened	intervene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Lycurgus	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present					tree rules
2	do	past					tree rules
3	take	present	the sacrifice		Sparta	after Lycurgus	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sparta=Location
4	intervene	participle		Lycurgus not said here			tree rules

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 burning of goats at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 burning	det
2	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 goats	case
4	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burning	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goats	nmod

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

Option 2

The offering of grain at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 offering	det
2	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 grain	case
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offering	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offering	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer			grain		the altar			nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient at=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The scourging of youths at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scourging	det
2	scourging	scourging	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 youths	case
4	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scourging	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scourging	nmod

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

Option 4

A ritual in which the youths were carried in procession to the sea and drowned

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ritual	det
2	ritual	ritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youths	amod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 youths	det
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youths	det
6	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carried	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carried	aux:pass
8	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 procession	case
10	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drowned	cc
15	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 carried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		which ritual youths		procession		to the sea	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination
2	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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