Exam question 4 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

How many companions did Odysseus select to accompany him into the cave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many companions · What happens: select, accompany · To what, where: Odysseus, cave

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 companions	amod
3	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 select	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 select	aux
5	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 select	nsubj
6	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accompany	mark
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 select	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accompany	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past · do-support	many companions						vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	accompany	to-infinitive	many companions not said here	Odysseus		the cave			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into cave=Destination

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 right answer

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

twenty-two of his bravest men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 twenty	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 men	nmod:poss
6	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 twenty	nmod

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

Option 3

thirty men from the black ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 men	nummod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 ships	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ships	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	nmod

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

Option 4

twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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