Exam question 3 · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

By what means did the heifer indicate the site of the future city?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: heifer · What happens: mean, indicate · To what, where: site

This is exam question 3 of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» 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 indicate	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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 indicate	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heifer	det
6	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indicate	nsubj
7	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 site	det
9	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indicate	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
12	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 city	amod
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 site	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 indicate	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	indicate	past · do-support	the heifer	the site of the future city					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot site=Topic

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 lying still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund					still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

by sleeping by the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sleeping	mark
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 spring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund					spring		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

by walking to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result

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

by lying down in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	gerund				the grass		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=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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