Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

Upon which river did Heracles and Deianeira first arrive during their journey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Heracles · What happens: arrive, journey

This is exam question 1 of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrive	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 arrive	aux
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 arrive	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Deianeira	cc
7	Deianeira	Deianeira	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Heracles	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 arrive	advmod
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 journey	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 journey	nmod:poss
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrive	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past · do-support	Heracles and Deianeira				during Heracles's journey	upon which river; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	journey		Heracles						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

the river Alpheus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Alpheus	Alpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 river	appos

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

Option 2

the Nile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nile	det
2	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the river Evenus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Evenus	Evenus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 river	appos

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

Option 4

the Lycus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lycus	det
2	Lycus	Lycus	PROPN	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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