Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

Which river issued from the lowermost rocks of the cave of Hypnus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river · What happens: issue · To what, where: lowermost rocks

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	nsubj
3	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rocks	det
6	lowermost	lowermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 issued	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rocks	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Hypnus	case
12	Hypnus	Hypnus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cave	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 issued	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle	which river			the lowermost rocks of the cave of Hypnus			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Styx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Styx	styx	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lethe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Acheron of woe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 woe	case
3	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Acheron	nmod

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

Option 4

Nile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nile	Nile	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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