Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penalty, Muses · What happens: do, impose

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Muses	det
5	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 daughters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughters	det
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impose	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Pierus	case
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pierus	compound
12	Pierus	Pierus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughters	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	penalty						tree rules
2	impose	present	the Muses					upon the daughters of King Pierus	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

transformation into singing birds that could never return home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 birds	case
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 transformation	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 return	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 return	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 return	advmod
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 birds	acl:relcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 return	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	could	singing birds					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

transformation into singing birds, as a warning to all mortals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 birds	case
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 transformation	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warning	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 warning	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 warning	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 transformation	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mortals	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 mortals	det
11	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

transformation into dark owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 owls	case
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owls	amod
4	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 transformation	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

transformation into singing birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	SCONJ	_	3 singing	mark
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 transformation	acl
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	transformation not said here	birds					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme

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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