Exam question 4 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

Which hero escaped the general slaughter while bearing his aged father upon his shoulders?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: escape, bear · To what, where: general slaughter, aged father

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	nsubj
3	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slaughter	det
5	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slaughter	amod
6	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 bearing	mark
8	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 escaped	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
10	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bearing	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 shoulders	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bearing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 escaped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	which hero	the general slaughter					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slaughter=Initial_Location
2	bear	gerund	which hero not said here	hero's aged father				upon hero's shoulders	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient

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

Helenus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Polites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polites	polite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aeneas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Paris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	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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