Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

By what designation were the Furies known when propitiation was sought?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: Furies

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Furies	advmod
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Furies	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Furies	det
6	Furies	fury	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sought	nsubj:pass
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sought	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sought	advmod
9	propitiation	propitiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sought	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sought	aux:pass
11	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Furies					tree rules
2	seek	participle · passive		the Furies					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Erinyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Hesperides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eumenides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Erinnyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erinnyes	erinnye	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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