Exam question 4 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

According to the passage, which judge pronounced sentence upon the shades after their confession?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, shades · What happens: accord, pronounce, confess · To what, where: sentence

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pronounced	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 judge	det
7	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	nsubj
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passage	acl:relcl
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 shades	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shades	det
12	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pronounced	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 confession	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 confession	nmod:poss
15	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	pronounce	past	which judge	sentence	after shades's confession	upon the shades	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
3	confess		shades = shade				nom confession «communication transitive»: 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

Cronus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cronus	cronus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Aeacus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Minos, son of Zeus and Europa, the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minos	mino	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Minos	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Zeus	case
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Europa	cc
7	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zeus	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Minos	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Minos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minos	mino	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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