Exam question 1 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

According to the passage, by what means did the god Asclepius communicate the cure to the sleeping supplicant?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: god Asclepius · What happens: accord, mean, communicate, sleep · To what, where: passage, cure, sleeping supplicant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 530 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and Seasons, part 36: Asclepius heals the sick, Janus guards the gates, and Vertumnus wins Pomona» 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 passage	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 communicate	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Asclepius	det
11	god	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Asclepius	compound
12	Asclepius	Asclepius	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 communicate	nsubj
13	communicate	communicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cure	det
15	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 communicate	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 supplicant	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 supplicant	det
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 supplicant	amod
19	supplicant	supplicant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cure	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				to the passage goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to passage=Goal
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	communicate	past · do-support	the god Asclepius	the cure	the sleeping supplicant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cure=Topic to supplicant=Recipient
4	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

by sending a sign of the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		a sign of the sun					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	sign			the sun					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

in a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 dream	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dream	det
3	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

through a priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 priest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by appearing to him in a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 appearing	mark
2	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appearing	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dream	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dream	det
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	gerund			him = he	a dream			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=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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