Exam question 1 · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…
At what time, according to the text, did the infant Hermes first leave the cave in order to steal the cattle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: infant Hermes · What happens: accord, leave, steal · To what, where: cave, cattle
This is exam question 1 of lesson 518 «Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes steals oxen and turns a greedy shepherd to stone» 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 text | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hermes | det |
| 12 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hermes | amod |
| 13 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 leave | advmod |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 steal | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 steal | mark |
| 21 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cattle | det |
| 23 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steal | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | leave | past · do-support | the infant Hermes | the cave | time | first property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||
| 3 | steal | to-infinitive | the infant Hermes not said here | the cattle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cattle=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
Some days after his birth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Many years after his birth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 years | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The next morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Not many hours after his birth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 birth | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 birth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hours | nmod |
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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