Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

According to the passage, by which river did the shades have to be ferried before entering the realm of the dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river, shades · What happens: accord, do, have, ferry, enter · To what, where: realm

This is exam question 2 of lesson 521 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead, part 27: Midas's gold river, then Dionysus and Aides» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passage	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passage	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shades	det
11	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	15 ferried	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ferried	aux:pass
15	ferried	ferry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 have	xcomp
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 entering	mark
17	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ferried	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 realm	det
19	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entering	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 realm	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	which river		accord the passage	tree rules
3	have	present	the shades			tree rules
4	ferry	to-infinitive · passive	the shades not said here			vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»
5	enter	gerund	the shades not said here	the realm of the dead		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme realm=Destination

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 flaming river Phlegethon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
2	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	compound
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Phlegethon	Phlegethon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 river	appos

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

Option 2

the river Acheron of sorrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Acheron	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Acheron	compound
3	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sorrows	case
5	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Acheron	nmod

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

Option 3

Acheron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Styx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Styx	det
2	Styx	Styx	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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