Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god'…
In which geographical region did Dionysus conduct his triumphal progress, establishing cities and civilized customs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dionysus · What happens: conduct, establish, progress · To what, where: triumphal progress, geographical region, cities
This is exam question 2 of lesson 520 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god's youth, travels and the golden king Midas» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 region | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 region | det |
| 3 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 region | amod |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conduct | obl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 conduct | aux |
| 6 | Dionysus | Dionysus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 conduct | nsubj |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 progress | nmod:poss |
| 9 | triumphal | triumphal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 progress | amod |
| 10 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conduct | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 establishing | punct |
| 12 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 conduct | advcl |
| 13 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 establishing | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 customs | cc |
| 15 | civilized | civilized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 customs | amod |
| 16 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cities | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 conduct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · do-support | Dionysus | Dionysus's triumphal progress | which geographical region | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent progress=Theme in region=Destination | |||
| 2 | establish | gerund | Dionysus not said here | cities and civilized customs | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | ||||
| 3 | progress | Dionysus | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
Phrygia, Lydia and Persia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phrygia | phrygia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lydia | punct |
| 3 | Lydia | Lydia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Phrygia | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Persia | cc |
| 5 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lydia | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Cyprus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Minor | Minor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Asia | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Phoenicia | punct |
| 4 | Phoenicia | Phoenicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Asia | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Cyprus | cc |
| 6 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Asia | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Syria, Egypt, Arabia and India
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Egypt | punct |
| 3 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Syria | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Arabia | punct |
| 5 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Syria | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 India | cc |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Syria | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Crete and Thrace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Thrace | cc |
| 3 | Thrace | Thrace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Crete | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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