Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

Of what plant did the inhabitants of the lotus-land offer their guests to partake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant, inhabitants · What happens: do, offer, partake · To what, where: guests

This is exam question 3 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inhabitants	det
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offer	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
9	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 land	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lotus	punct
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inhabitants	nmod
12	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 guests	nmod:poss
14	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offer	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 partake	mark
16	partake	partake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 offer	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	plant		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	offer	present	the inhabitants of the lotus land	inhabitants's guests	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent guest=Theme
3	partake	to-infinitive	the inhabitants of the lotus land not said here		tree rules

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

myrrh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

poppy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the lotus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lotus	det
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the mandrake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mandrake	det
2	mandrake	mandrake	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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