Exam question 2 · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…
To what city did the Argive host, after the death of the infant, proceed in order to lay siege?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: city, you · What happens: do, proceed, lay · To what, where: Argive host, siege
This is exam question 2 of lesson 550 «Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part 56: the Argives fight for Thebes and the heroes die» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 proceed | obl |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 host | det |
| 6 | Argive | argive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 host | amod |
| 7 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 death | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 death | det |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 host | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 infant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 infant | det |
| 14 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 death | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceed | punct |
| 16 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 lay | mark |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 in | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lay | mark |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proceed | advcl |
| 21 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | city | the Argive host | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | proceed | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | to-infinitive | you not said here | siege | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
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
Thebes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thebes | thebe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The city of Cadmus on the Ismenus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cadmus | case |
| 4 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 city | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Ismenus | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ismenus | det |
| 7 | Ismenus | Ismenus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 city | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Back to Argos through Nemea and Lerna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Argos | case |
| 3 | Argos | Argos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 Nemea | case |
| 5 | Nemea | Nemea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Lerna | cc |
| 7 | Lerna | Lerna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nemea | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Corinth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corinth | corinth | NOUN | 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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