Exam question 4 · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

Which instrument did Hermes compose from the shell of a tortoise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: compose · To what, where: shell

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 compose	aux
4	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 compose	nsubj
5	compose	compose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compose	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tortoise	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tortoise	det
11	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shell	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 compose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compose	past · do-support	which instrument			the shell of a tortoise			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from shell=Material

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

A lyre of twelve strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lyre	det
2	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 strings	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 strings	nummod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lyre	nmod

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

Option 2

A harp of nine strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 harp	det
2	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 strings	case
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 strings	nummod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 harp	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lyre of seven strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lyre	det
2	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 strings	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 strings	nummod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lyre	nmod

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

Option 4

A seven-stringed lyre built from a tortoise shell and cattle gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lyre	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stringed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seven	punct
4	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lyre	amod
5	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lyre	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 shell	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shell	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shell	compound
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cattle	cc
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shell	conj
13	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		a stringed lyre not said here		a tortoise shell and cattle and gut			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from shell=Material

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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