Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus…
Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, deity · What happens: specify, command, check, presume · To what, where: deity, Pegasus, presumption, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 527 «Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deity | det |
| 3 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 commanded | nsubj |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deity | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Pegasus | Pegasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 check | mark |
| 8 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commanded | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 presumption | det |
| 10 | presumption | presumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 check | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presumption | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Helicon | case |
| 15 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Helicon | compound |
| 16 | Helicon | helicon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mountain | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the deity | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the deity | Pegasus | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pegasus=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | check not said to happen | to-infinitive | the deity not said here | the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presumption=Theme | ||||
| 4 | presume | the mountain on Mount Helicon | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice
Hephaestus the smith-god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hephaestus | Hephaestus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 god | det |
| 3 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 god | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 smith | punct |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hephaestus | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Poseidon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poseidon | poseidon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hermes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the sea-god Oceanus the elder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Oceanus | Oceanus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 god | appos |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elder | det |
| 7 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Oceanus | appos |
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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