Exam question 2 · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…
Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upon the completion of the labour assigned to him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: refuse, not render, promise, assign, complete · To what, where: promised recompense, Heracles, labour, king
This is exam question 2 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 render | mark |
| 5 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 recompense | det |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 recompense | amod |
| 8 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 render | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Heracles | case |
| 10 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 render | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 completion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 completion | det |
| 13 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 render | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 labour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 labour | det |
| 16 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 completion | nmod |
| 17 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 labour | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 assigned | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | which king | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not render | to-infinitive | which king not said here | the promised recompense | Heracles | upon the completion of the labour | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent recompense=Theme to heracles=Recipient | ||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | assign | participle | the labour not said here | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal | ||||
| 5 | complete | the labour | nom completion «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
Minos, King of Crete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minos | mino | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Minos | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Crete | case |
| 5 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eurystheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eurystheus | Eurystheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Augeas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Augeas | augea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Augeas, King of Elis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Augeas | augea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Augeas | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Elis | case |
| 5 | Elis | Elis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
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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