Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus…

Indicate the number of Horae recognised by the ancient Greeks as seasons of the year.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, recognise · To what, where: number

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Horae	case
5	Horae	Horae	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 number	nmod
6	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 number	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 Greeks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Greeks	det
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Greeks	amod
10	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 recognised	obl:agent
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 seasons	case
12	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognised	obl:agent
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 year	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seasons	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the number of Horae					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Topic
2	recognise	participle		the number of Horae not said here			season		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

thirty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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