Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

Which name did Odysseus give Polyphemus when questioned concerning his identity?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: name · What happens: give, question, concern · To what, where: Polyphemus, identity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 558 «Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, escapes the winds and the Laestrygones, and meets Circe» 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 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 questioned	advmod
8	questioned	question	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 give	advcl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 questioned	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 identity	nmod:poss
11	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	which name	Polyphemus	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polyphemus=Theme
2	question speech: other	participle	which name not said here		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	concern	gerund	which name not said here	Odysseus's identity	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus identity=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

Mentor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Nestor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Nobody Who Is Here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Here	nsubj
3	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Here	cop
4	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Nobody	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						here property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Noman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noman	Noman	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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