Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

Which gift was bestowed upon Heracles by Phoebus-Apollo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Phoebus · What happens: bestow · To what, where: gift

This is exam question 3 of lesson 542 «Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, and the first labours» 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 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bestowed	aux:pass
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Heracles	case
6	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Phoebus	case
8	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obl
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Apollo	punct
10	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Phoebus	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bestowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · passive	Phoebus and Apollo	which gift				upon Heracles	tree rules

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

a bronze shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shield	det
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shield	compound
3	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a golden helmet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 helmet	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 helmet	amod
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a bundle of arrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 arrows	case
4	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bundle	nmod

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

Option 4

a quiver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quiver	det
2	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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