Exam question 2 · Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca…

By what means does the goddess Athene conceal the returned hero from the people of Ithaca upon his arrival on the island?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Athene · What happens: mean, do, conceal, return, arrive · To what, where: goddess, returned hero, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 560 «Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca and hides as a beggar» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goddess	det
6	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 conceal	nsubj
8	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goddess	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hero	det
10	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hero	amod
11	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conceal	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 conceal	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ithaca	case
16	Ithaca	Ithaca	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 people	nmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 arrival	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arrival	nmod:poss
19	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conceal	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 island	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 island	det
22	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrival	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present		the goddess			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddess=Eventuality
3	conceal	present	Athene	the returned hero		from the people of Ithaca; upon Athene's arrival on the island	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hero=Patient from people=Beneficiary
4	return	participle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arrive		Athene		the island		nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

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

With a magic mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 mist	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mist	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mist	amod
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By enveloping him in a thick cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 enveloping	mark
2	enveloping	envelop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 enveloping	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloud	amod
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enveloping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	envelop	gerund		him = he		a thick cloud			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By a cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 cloak	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By casting him into a deep sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 casting	mark
2	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 casting	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 casting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	gerund		him = he		a deep sleep			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into sleep=Product

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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