Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

By what means did the Athenians attribute their victory at Marathon to the god Pan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Athenians · What happens: mean, attribute · To what, where: victory, Marathon

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 attribute	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 attribute	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Athenians	det
6	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 attribute	nsubj
7	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 victory	nmod:poss
9	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Marathon	case
11	Marathon	Marathon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Pan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Pan	det
14	god	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Pan	compound
15	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	attribute	past · do-support	the Athenians	Athenians's victory		Marathon		to the god Pan	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 sudden flight of the Persian army across the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flight	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flight	amod
3	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 army	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 army	det
6	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 army	compound
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flight	nmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 plain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flight	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the alarm among the Persians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 alarm	det
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 Persians	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persians	det
5	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 alarm	nmod

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

Option 3

a sudden storm that scattered the Persian ships at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 scattered	nsubj
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ships	det
7	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ships	amod
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scattered	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sea	case
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	a sudden storm	the Persian ships		sea			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent ship=Theme at sea=Destination

Option 4

the sudden fear of the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fear	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fear	amod
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 army	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			the army					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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