Exam question 1 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

Of what did the parents of the abducted maidens promise to grant Hymen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents · What happens: do, abduct, promise, grant · To what, where: Hymen

This is exam question 1 of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 promise	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 maidens	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maidens	det
8	abducted	abduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 maidens	amod
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parents	nmod
10	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grant	mark
12	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promise	xcomp
13	Hymen	Hymen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grant	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	abduct	participle			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	present	the parents of the abducted maidens		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grant not said to happen	to-infinitive	the parents of the abducted maidens not said here	Hymen	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hymen=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 throne of their father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 throne	det
2	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throne	nmod

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

Option 2

a share of their kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 share	det
2	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kingdom	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kingdom	nmod:poss
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share			their kingdom					nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the maiden he loved in marriage along with a rich dowry of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 marriage	case
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl
7	along	along	ADP	_	11 dowry	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 dowry	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dowry	det
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dowry	amod
11	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dowry	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	the maiden			marriage		along a rich dowry of gold	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the maiden he loved in marriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 marriage	case
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	the maiden			marriage			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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