Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

By which means did the comrades of Odysseus escape from the cave of the giant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: comrades · What happens: mean, do, escape · To what, where: cave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 comrades	det
6	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 escape	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Odysseus	case
8	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 comrades	nmod
9	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 giant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cave	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	escape	present	the comrades of Odysseus	the cave of the giant	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cave=Initial_Location

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

by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by hanging on the sheep's wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 hanging	mark
2	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 wool	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wool	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 sheep	case
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund				the sheep's wool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wool=Location

Option 3

by slipping under the flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 slipping	mark
2	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 flock	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flock	det
5	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	gerund				the flock			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by clinging beneath the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 clinging	mark
2	clinging	cling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	gerund						beneath the sheep	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath sheep=Location

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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