Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…
What object did the nymph Syrinx become, thereby causing the origin of the pipe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, nymph · What happens: do, become, cause · To what, where: nymph, origin
This is exam question 2 of lesson 529 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is born strange, wins the gods' love, makes his pipe, and guards the shepherds» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nymph | det |
| 5 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | Syrinx | Syrinx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nymph | appos |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nymph | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 causing | punct |
| 9 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 10 causing | advmod |
| 10 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 origin | det |
| 12 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 causing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pipe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pipe | det |
| 15 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 origin | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | object | the nymph | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | present | the nymph not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cause | gerund | object not said here | the origin of the pipe | thereby property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition origin=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 · ✓ the right answer
a reed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reed | det |
| 2 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a golden flower on the riverbank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flower | amod |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 riverbank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 riverbank | det |
| 6 | riverbank | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a bee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tall reed growing by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reed | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reed | amod |
| 3 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 reed | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 growing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | a tall reed not said here | by the river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
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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