Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Under what circumstances was Medusa transformed by the goddess Athene?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: Medusa, circumstances

This is exam question 2 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	Under	under	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Medusa	cop
5	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 circumstances	appos
6	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 circumstances	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 goddess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goddess	det
9	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transformed	obl
10	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goddess	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Medusa					tree rules
2	transform	participle		circumstances not said here				by the goddess	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

after a dispute with Zeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 dispute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dispute	det
3	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Zeus	case
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dispute	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

after she broke her vow of celibacy with Poseidon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 broke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vow	nmod:poss
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 celibacy	case
7	celibacy	celibacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vow	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Poseidon	case
9	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	she	her vow of celibacy				with Poseidon	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vow=Patient with poseidon=Instrument
2	vow		her = she	celibacy					nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 3

after she lost a contest with Athene at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 lost	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 contest	det
5	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Athene	case
7	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	a contest			dawn	with Athene	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality

Option 4

after she broke her vows with a mortal man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 broke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vows	nmod:poss
5	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	she	her vows				with a mortal man	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vow=Patient with man=Instrument
2	vow		her = she						nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/524-pg22381-part30/e2/