Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

With which implement did Atropos sever the thread of human life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Atropos · What happens: sever · To what, where: thread

This is exam question 2 of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 implement	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 implement	det
3	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sever	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sever	aux
5	Atropos	Atropos	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sever	nsubj
6	sever	sever	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thread	det
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sever	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thread	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sever	past · do-support	Atropos	the thread of human life				with which implement	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme

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 curved iron dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dagger	det
2	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dagger	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dagger	compound
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

Option 2

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a hatchet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hatchet	det
2	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	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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