Exam question 3 · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

Upon what substance did Odysseus rely to protect his crew from the Sirens' song?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Odysseus, Sirens · What happens: rely, protect, sing · To what, where: crew

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rely	obj
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rely	aux
5	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rely	nsubj
6	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rely	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crew	nmod:poss
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protect	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	15 song	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sirens	det
13	Sirens	Siren	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 song	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 Sirens	case
15	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protect	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rely	past · do-support	Odysseus			tree rules
2	protect	to-infinitive	Odysseus not said here	Odysseus's crew	from the Sirens's song	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent crew=Beneficiary from song=Theme
3	sing		the Sirens			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

sheep wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wool	compound
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

woven cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cloth	amod
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

river mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mud	compound
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

melted wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wax	amod
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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