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title: Of what plant did the inhabitants of the lotus-land offer their gues… — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what plant did the inhabitants of the lotus-land offer their guests to partake? Exam question 3 of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

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Of what plant did the inhabitants of the lotus-land offer their guests to partake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plant, inhabitants · **What happens:** do, offer, partake · **To what, where:** guests

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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/557-pg22381-part63/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e3:1
# text = Of what plant did the inhabitants of the lotus-land offer their guests to partake?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	partake	partake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | plant |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the inhabitants of the lotus land | inhabitants's guests |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
| 3 | **partake** | to-infinitive | the inhabitants of the lotus land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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myrrh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e3:o1:1
# text = myrrh
1	myrrh	myrrh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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poppy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e3:o2:1
# text = poppy
1	poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the lotus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e3:o3:1
# text = the lotus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	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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the mandrake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e3:o4:1
# text = the mandrake
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mandrake	mandrake	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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