Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

What purpose did the dying Centaur assign to the blood that Deianeira was to preserve?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: purpose, Deianeira · What happens: do, die, be · To what, where: dying Centaur assign

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 assign	det
5	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 assign	amod
6	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 assign	compound
7	assign	assign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 blood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 preserve	mark
12	Deianeira	Deianeira	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 preserve	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 preserve	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 preserve	mark
15	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 blood	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	purpose	the dying Centaur assign	to the blood	tree rules
2	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	Deianeira		preserve property	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 · ✓ the right answer

to serve as a love-charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 serve	mark
2	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 charm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 charm	det
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charm	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
7	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 serve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	to-infinitive						as a love charm	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as charm=Attribute

Option 2

to heal wounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 heal	mark
2	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	to-infinitive		wounds					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient

Option 3

to bind a lover close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 bind	mark
2	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lover	det
4	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bind	obj
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bind	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	to-infinitive		a lover				close property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient

Option 4

to win back love fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 love	advcl
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 win	advmod
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 love	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win back	to-infinitive							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	love	present						fast property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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