Test 8 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

so what did Calypso want in return, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Calypso · What happens: want · To what, where: return

This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	Calypso	Calypso	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 return	case
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Calypso			return			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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

him to pay a fee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 pay	mark
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fee	det
5	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive	him = he	a fee					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

him to stay forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stay	mark
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

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

Option 3

him to be her slave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 slave	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 slave	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 slave	nmod:poss
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 him	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		her slave					tree rules

Option 4

him to fight her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fight	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 fight	mark
3	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive	him = he	her = she					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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