Exam question 2 · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…
State the reason the Argonauts delayed their departure from Lemnos.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State reason, Argonauts · What happens: delay, depart · To what, where: departure, Lemnos
This is exam question 2 of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reason | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delayed | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Argonauts | det |
| 5 | Argonauts | argonaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 delayed | nsubj |
| 6 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 departure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delayed | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Lemnos | case |
| 10 | Lemnos | Lemnos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 delayed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delayed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | past | the State reason | Argonauts's departure | Lemnos | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent departure=Source | |||
| 2 | depart | Argonauts = argonaut | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
They were absorbed in feasting and pleasure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 3 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 feasting | case |
| 5 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 absorbed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleasure | cc |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feasting | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | past · passive | They | feasting and pleasure | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
They were completely absorbed in endless feasting, dancing and pleasure with the women
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 absorbed | advmod |
| 4 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 feasting | case |
| 6 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feasting | amod |
| 7 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 absorbed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dancing | punct |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feasting | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleasure | cc |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feasting | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 women | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 women | det |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 absorbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | past · passive | They | endless feasting and dancing and pleasure | with the women; completely property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
They were distracted by an oracle's warning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 distracted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 distracted | aux:pass |
| 3 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 warning | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oracle | det |
| 6 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warning | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 oracle | case |
| 8 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 distracted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | past · passive | a oracle's warning | They | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | warn | a oracle | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
They were so absorbed in feasting and pleasure that they forgot the quest entirely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 absorbed | advmod |
| 4 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 feasting | case |
| 6 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 absorbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pleasure | cc |
| 8 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feasting | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 forgot | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 absorbed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quest | det |
| 13 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgot | obj |
| 14 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 11 forgot | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | past · passive | They | feasting and pleasure | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | feasting | the quest | entirely property | tree rules |
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