Exam question 4 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…
What principal function is assigned to Iris in the passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: assign · To what, where: principal function, Iris, passage
This is exam question 4 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 | 5 assigned | obj |
| 2 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 function | amod |
| 3 | function | function | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assigned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 assigned | aux:pass |
| 5 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Iris | case |
| 7 | Iris | Iris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 assigned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 passage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assigned | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 assigned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assign | present · passive | principal function | Iris | the passage | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=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
messenger of the sky father
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | compound |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 messenger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
messenger of the queen of heaven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 messenger | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
messenger of the queen of heaven and bearer of the rainbow bridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 messenger | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bearer | cc |
| 8 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 11 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridge | compound |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bearer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the goddess of the storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goddess | det |
| 2 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 storm | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goddess | nmod |
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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