Exam question 2 · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…
Which people were present at the castle to receive the returning youths?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: be, receive, return · To what, where: castle, returning youths
This is exam question 2 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 present | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 present | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 receive | mark |
| 9 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 castle | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youths | det |
| 11 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 youths | amod |
| 12 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receive | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which people | the castle | present property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | which people not said here | the returning youths | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Chalciope and Medea, the king's daughters, along with the whole royal court
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalciope | Chalciope | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Medea | cc |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chalciope | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughters | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chalciope | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 court | punct |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 court | amod |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 court | amod |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chalciope | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chalciope and Absyrtus, the king's sons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalciope | Chalciope | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Absyrtus | cc |
| 3 | Absyrtus | Absyrtus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chalciope | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sons | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chalciope | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Chalciope and Medea, the king's daughters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalciope | Chalciope | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Medea | cc |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chalciope | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughters | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chalciope | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Chalciope and Medea, the king's daughters, with their maids and guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalciope | Chalciope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Medea | cc |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chalciope | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughters | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 maids | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 maids | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 maids | nmod:poss |
| 12 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 daughters | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 guards | cc |
| 14 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 daughters | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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