Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

Which winds were said to be the children of Eos and Astraeus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, be · To what, where: winds, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 children	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 children	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Eos	case
10	Eos	Eos	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 children	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Astraeus	cc
12	Astraeus	Astraeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Eos	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		which winds					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		the children				of Eos and Astraeus	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 winds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the seven planetary stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stars	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stars	nummod
3	planetary	planetary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stars	compound
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storms	det
2	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the four principal winds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winds	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 winds	nummod
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 winds	amod
4	winds	wind	NOUN	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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