Exam question 1 · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…
Which goddess instructed Odysseus to consult Tiresias in the realm of Hades?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: goddess · What happens: instruct, consult · To what, where: Odysseus, Tiresias, realm
This is exam question 1 of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» 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 goddess | det |
| 2 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instructed | nsubj |
| 3 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Odysseus | Odysseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 instructed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 consult | mark |
| 6 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 instructed | xcomp |
| 7 | Tiresias | Tiresias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 consult | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 realm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 realm | det |
| 10 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consult | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Hades | case |
| 12 | Hades | Hade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 realm | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | past | which goddess | Odysseus | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent odysseus=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | which goddess not said here | Tiresias | the realm of Hades | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiresias=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
Calypso
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calypso | Calypso | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Helios
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helios | helio | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Circe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circe | circe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Athene
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Athene | athene | NOUN | 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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