Exam question 1 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

By what means did the Greek warriors gain entrance to the city of Troy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Greek warriors · What happens: mean, do, gain · To what, where: entrance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 556 «Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wooden horse and enter Troy» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 warriors	det
6	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warriors	amod
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gain	nsubj
8	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gain	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entrance	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Troy	case
14	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 city	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				tree rules
3	gain	present	the Greek warriors	entrance	to the city of Troy result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient entrance=Extent to city=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

By a secret tunnel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 tunnel	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tunnel	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tunnel	amod
4	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By concealment within a wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 concealment	case
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	within	within	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concealment	nmod

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

Option 3

Through the sea gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	compound
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By bribing the Trojan guards at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bribing	mark
2	bribing	bribe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
4	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guards	amod
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bribing	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bribing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	gerund		the Trojan guards			night		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient

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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