Exam question 1 · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…

In which place did the murder of Absyrtus take place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: place · What happens: do, take, murder · To what, where: murder, place, Absyrtus

This is exam question 1 of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 murder	det
6	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Absyrtus	case
8	Absyrtus	Absyrtus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 murder	nmod
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which place	the murder of Absyrtus	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Eventuality
2	take	infinitive		place	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	murder			Absyrtus	nom murder «act transitive»: 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

Inside the temple of Hecate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 temple	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temple	det
3	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hecate	case
5	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 temple	nmod

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

Option 2

In the grove of Ares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 grove	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grove	det
3	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ares	case
5	Ares	ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grove	nmod

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

Option 3

At the altar of Hera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 altar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 altar	det
3	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hera	case
5	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 altar	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the temple of Artemis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 temple	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temple	det
3	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Artemis	case
5	Artemis	Artemis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 temple	nmod

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

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