Exam question 1 · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…

Which implement did Pallas-Athene provide to Heracles in order to dislodge the Stymphalian birds from their habitat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: implement · What happens: provide, dislodge · To what, where: Heracles, Stymphalian birds, habitat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provide	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 provide	aux
4	Pallas	Pallas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 provide	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Athene	punct
6	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pallas	flat
7	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Heracles	case
9	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 provide	obl
10	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 dislodge	mark
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dislodge	mark
13	dislodge	dislodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 provide	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
15	Stymphalian	Stymphalian	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 birds	compound
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dislodge	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 habitat	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 habitat	nmod:poss
19	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dislodge	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 provide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past · do-support	which implement		Heracles				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heracles=Recipient
2	dislodge	to-infinitive	which implement not said here	the Stymphalian birds		birds's habitat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme from habitat=Initial_Location

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

bronze shields forged by Ares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shields	compound
2	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shields	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Ares	case
5	Ares	ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	participle		bronze shields not said here				by Ares	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ar=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clappers	amod
2	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clappers	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Hephaestus	case
5	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	participle		brazen clappers not said here				by Hephaestus	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hephaestus=Destination

Option 3

brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus in the fires of his workshop on Olympus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clappers	amod
2	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clappers	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Hephaestus	case
5	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forged	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fires	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fires	det
8	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forged	obl:agent
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 workshop	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 workshop	nmod:poss
11	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fires	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Olympus	case
13	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 workshop	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	participle		brazen clappers not said here				by Hephaestus	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hephaestus=Destination
2	fire			Hephaestus's workshop on Olympus					nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a set of brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus and given to him on Olympus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 set	det
2	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 clappers	case
4	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clappers	amod
5	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	nmod
6	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 clappers	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Hephaestus	case
8	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forged	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 given	cc
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 forged	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 given	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 Olympus	case
14	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	participle		brazen clappers not said here				by Hephaestus	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hephaestus=Destination
2	give	participle			Hephaestus	Olympus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient on olympus=Asset

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