Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

Identify the seasonal significance of the deity Pomona as described in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, describe · To what, where: seasonal significance, passage

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 significance	det
3	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 significance	amod
4	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 deity	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deity	det
7	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 significance	nmod
8	Pomona	Pomona	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 deity	appos
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 described	mark
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 passage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the seasonal significance of the deity					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent significance=Theme
2	describe	participle	you not said here			the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she typifies Autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 typifies	nsubj
2	typifies	typify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 typifies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	typify	present	she	Autumn					tree rules

Option 2

Summer only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Summer	advmod

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

Option 3

she stands for Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stands	nsubj
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Spring	case
4	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	she				spring		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

she is Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Spring	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Spring	cop
3	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	Spring					tree rules

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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