Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

What was the principal herb which Hermes bestowed upon Odysseus as a safeguard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal herb · What happens: be, bestow

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herb	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 herb	amod
5	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bestowed	nsubj
7	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	nsubj
8	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 herb	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Odysseus	case
10	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 safeguard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 safeguard	det
13	safeguard	safeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal herb						tree rules
2	bestow	past	the principal herb					upon Odysseus; as a safeguard	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

Lotus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Basil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Moly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nux	Nux	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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