Exam question 1 · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Which gate of the House of Dreams admits deceptive and flattering visions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gate · What happens: admit · To what, where: deceptive visions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» 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 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 admits	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 House	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 House	det
5	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gate	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Dreams	case
7	Dreams	Dream	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 House	nmod
8	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	deceptive	deceptive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 visions	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flattering	cc
11	flattering	flattering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deceptive	conj
12	visions	vision	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 admits	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 admits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present	which gate of the House of Dreams	deceptive visions					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=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

the gate made of bronze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gate	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bronze	case
5	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		the gate not said here				of bronze	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the gate formed of ivory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	nsubj
3	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ivory	case
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	past	the gate					of ivory	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the gate formed of horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	nsubj
3	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 horn	case
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	past	the gate					of horn	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the gate formed of ivory, guarded by Morpheus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	nsubj
3	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ivory	case
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guarded	punct
7	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 formed	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Morpheus	case
9	Morpheus	Morpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	past	the gate					of ivory	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guard	participle	the gate not said here					by Morpheus	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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