Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

In the text, which coin was customarily placed beneath the tongue of the deceased?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: place, decease · To what, where: coin, text, tongue

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 text	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 text	det
3	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 text	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 coin	det
6	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 placed	aux:pass
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	9 placed	advmod
9	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 tongue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tongue	det
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	obl
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 deceased	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 deceased	det
15	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tongue	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 placed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		which coin		the text		beneath the tongue; customarily property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in text=Destination
2	decease	participle		the tongue not said here					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

a small silver coin of Athens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Athens	case
6	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin			Athens					nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bronze coin stamped with an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	compound
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coin	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 owl	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	participle		a bronze coin not said here				with a owl	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with owl=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

an obolus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 obolus	det
2	obolus	obolus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a talent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 talent	det
2	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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