Exam question 4 · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Which leader of the Thebans, slain by Alcmaeon, was the son of Eteocles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leader · What happens: slay, be · To what, where: Thebans, son

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Thebans	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Thebans	det
5	Thebans	Theban	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 leader	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slain	punct
7	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Thebans	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Alcmaeon	case
9	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 slain	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 leader	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 son	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Eteocles	case
15	Eteocles	Eteocles	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	participle		the Thebans not said here				by Alcmaeon	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	which leader	the son				of Eteocles	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

Polynices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polynices	polynice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Haemon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Laodamas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Creon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creon	Creon	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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