Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

State the number of distinct forms which Vertumnus assumed in his pursuit of Pomona.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, distinct forms, Vertumnus · What happens: state, assume, pursue · To what, where: number, pursuit, Pomona

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forms	case
5	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forms	amod
6	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 assumed	nsubj
8	Vertumnus	Vertumnus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 assumed	nsubj
9	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forms	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pursuit	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pursuit	nmod:poss
12	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 assumed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Pomona	case
14	Pomona	Pomona	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pursuit	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of distinct forms		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	assume	past	distinct forms		Vertumnus's pursuit of Pomona	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pursue		Vertumnus	Pomona		nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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

seven forms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forms	nummod
2	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

five forms, including a bee, a farmer, an old woman, a soldier and a youth

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forms	nummod
2	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bee	punct
4	including	including	ADP	_	6 bee	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bee	det
6	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forms	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 farmer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forms	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woman	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 farmer	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soldier	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 soldier	det
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 youth	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 youth	det
19	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 farmer	conj

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

Option 3

five different forms of disguise, each more clever than the last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 forms	nummod
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forms	amod
3	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clever	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 disguise	case
5	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forms	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 forms	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 clever	nsubj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 clever	advmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 last	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 last	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			disguise					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five forms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forms	nummod
2	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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