Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

By whose agency was the rock to which Ajax clung rent asunder?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: agency, Ajax · What happens: be, cling · To what, where: rock, rent asunder

This is exam question 2 of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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	_	3 agency	case
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 agency	nmod:poss
3	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rock	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rock	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 clung	obl
9	Ajax	Ajax	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 clung	nsubj
10	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rock	acl:relcl
11	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asunder	compound
12	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clung	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the rock's agency	the rock					tree rules
2	cling	past	Ajax	rent asunder				to the rock	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme

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

Zeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Hermes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Poseidon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poseidon	poseidon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Athene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Athene	athene	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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