Test 13 · ★ · Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca…

Mate, who tells Telemachus the story of the beggar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: tell · To what, where: story, Telemachus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Telemachus	Telemachus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 beggar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beggar	det
10	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present		the story of the beggar	Telemachus			Mate vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent telemachus=Recipient story=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Eumaeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eumaeus	Eumaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Eumaeus, the swineherd, who tells him the stranger's tale in the hut

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eumaeus	Eumaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swineherd	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eumaeus	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swineherd	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tale	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stranger	case
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the swineherd	the stranger's tale	Eumaeus	the hut			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic
2	tell		the stranger						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Mentor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mentor	mentor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nestor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nestor	nestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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