Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

By what designation is the enchantress who detained his companions known?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation, enchantress · What happens: be, detain, know · To what, where: enchantress, companions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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	root	root
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enchantress	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enchantress	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enchantress	det
6	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 detained	nsubj
8	detained	detain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchantress	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 companions	nmod:poss
10	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 detained	obj
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 detained	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	designation	the enchantress	tree rules
2	detain	past	the enchantress	his companions	tree rules
3	know	participle	the enchantress not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 enchantress Circe of Aeaea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 enchantress	det
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 enchantress	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Aeaea	case
5	Aeaea	Aeaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Circe	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Circe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Circe	circe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Calypso

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Eos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eos	eos	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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