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title: By what designation is the enchantress who detained his companions k… — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what designation is the enchantress who detained his companions known? Exam question 2 of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

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By what designation is the enchantress who detained his companions known?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** designation, enchantress · **What happens:** be, detain, know · **To what, where:** enchantress, companions

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2067-pg976-part26/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:e2:1
# text = By what designation is the enchantress who detained his companions known?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	detained	detain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | designation | the enchantress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **detain** | past | the enchantress | his companions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle | the enchantress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The enchantress Circe of Aeaea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:e2:o1:1
# text = The enchantress Circe of Aeaea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Aeaea	Aeaea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Circe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:e2:o2:1
# text = Circe
1	Circe	circe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Calypso

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:e2:o3:1
# text = Calypso
1	Calypso	Calypso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:e2:o4:1
# text = Eos
1	Eos	eos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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