Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

Which deity bestowed the hand of Hebe upon the hero following his reconciliation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deity, hero · What happens: bestow, follow, reconcile · To what, where: hand, reconciliation

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 deity	det
2	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bestowed	nsubj
3	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bestowed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Hebe	case
7	Hebe	Hebe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hand	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 hero	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hero	det
10	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bestowed	obl
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hero	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 reconciliation	nmod:poss
13	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bestowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bestow	past	which deity	the hand of Hebe	upon the hero	tree rules
2	follow	gerund	the hero not said here	deity's reconciliation		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reconciliation=Theme
3	reconcile		deity			nom reconciliation «act intransitive»: 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

Persephone, queen of the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Persephone	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dead	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dead	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	nmod

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

Option 2

Aphrodite, goddess of love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aphrodite	aphrodite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goddess	punct
3	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aphrodite	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goddess	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hera	hera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Eos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eos	eos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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