Exam question 1 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

Which individual was taken captive by Odysseus upon the fall of Troy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Odysseus · What happens: take · To what, where: individual

This is exam question 1 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taken	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Odysseus	case
7	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 fall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fall	det
10	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Troy	case
12	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fall	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive	Odysseus	which individual				upon the fall of Troy; captive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Helen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helen	helen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Electra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hecuba

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Cassandra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassandra	Cassandra	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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