Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

Why did the crew open the bag, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: open · To what, where: bag

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 open	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crew	det
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bag	det
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 open	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past · do-support	the crew	the bag					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme

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

They hoped it was gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gold	cop
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	They						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past	it	gold					tree rules

Option 2

They were curious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 curious	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					curious property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They thought it was loot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loot	cop
5	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	loot					tree rules

Option 4

They were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					hungry property	tree rules

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