Exam question 2 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

Who was responsible for the death of King Priam at the altar of Zeus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King Priam · What happens: be, die · To what, where: altar

This is exam question 2 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 responsible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 responsible	cop
3	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 death	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 responsible	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Priam	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Priam	compound
9	Priam	Priam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 death	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 altar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 altar	det
12	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 responsible	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Zeus	case
14	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 altar	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 responsible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the altar of Zeus		for the death of King Priam; responsible property	tree rules
2	die		King Priam						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Neoptolemus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Achilles' son Neoptolemus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Achilles	case
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Neoptolemus	Neoptolemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos

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

Option 3

Sinon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Telemachus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telemachus	Telemachus	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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