Test 13 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

Did Circe's drink turn them into anything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drink · What happens: do, turn · To what, where: them, anything

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drink	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Circe	case
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 turn	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	turn	present	Circe's drink	them = they		anything			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into anything=Trajectory

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

Yeah, they turned into pigs and went on to roam the island forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 pigs	case
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 roam	mark
11	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 island	det
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roam	obj
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	11 roam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they		into pigs result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pig=Result
2	go on	past	they not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roam	to-infinitive	they not said here	the island	forever property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, they became pigs and forgot all their names and journeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 forgot	cc
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 names	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 names	nmod:poss
10	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forgot	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 journeys	cc
12	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 names	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	past	they	pigs	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	forget	past	they not said here	pigs's names and journeys	tree rules
3	name		pigs = pig		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, pigs, but they kept their brains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 pigs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pigs	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brains	nmod:poss
9	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	pigs	pigs's brains					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, goats, though they stayed human

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 goats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goats	punct
3	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stayed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 stayed	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	goats					human property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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