Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

Which character was the principal agent in the death of the aged Theseus?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, aged Theseus · What happens: be, die · To what, where: principal agent, death

This is exam question 1 of lesson 549 «Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 agent	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 agent	det
5	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 agent	amod
6	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 death	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 death	det
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agent	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Theseus	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Theseus	det
12	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Theseus	amod
13	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 agent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which character	the principal agent		the death of the aged Theseus			tree rules
2	die		the aged Theseus						nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

Lycomedes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lycomedes	Lycomedes	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Aegeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Peleus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peleus	Peleus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Pirithous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pirithous	Pirithous	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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