Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

Which of the following nymphs were the daughters of Nereus and Doris?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, be · To what, where: daughters

This is exam question 1 of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 daughters	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 nymphs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nymphs	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 nymphs	amod
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 daughters	obl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daughters	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughters	det
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Nereus	case
10	Nereus	Nereus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughters	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Doris	cc
12	Doris	Doris	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Nereus	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 daughters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the daughters				of the following nymphs; of Nereus and Doris	tree rules

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 right answer

the Nereides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nereides	det
2	Nereides	Nereides	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the children of Oceanus and Tethys who ruled the rivers of the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Oceanus	case
4	Oceanus	Oceanus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Tethys	cc
6	Tethys	Tethys	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Oceanus	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ruled	nsubj
8	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rivers	det
10	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruled	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rivers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	the children of Oceanus and Tethys	the rivers of the earth					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme

Option 3

the Oceanides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Oceanides	det
2	Oceanides	Oceanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Dryades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dryades	det
2	Dryades	Dryade	PROPN	Number=Plur	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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