--- title: How many companions did Odysseus select to accompany him into the ca… — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics description: How many companions did Odysseus select to accompany him into the cave? Exam question 4 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 dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/557-pg22381-part63/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/557-pg22381-part63/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr… How many companions did Odysseus select to accompany him into the cave? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many companions · **What happens:** select, accompany · **To what, where:** Odysseus, cave This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e4:1 # text = How many companions did Odysseus select to accompany him into the cave? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Odysseus Odysseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 select select VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 accompany accompany VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | past · do-support | many companions | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 2 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | many companions *not said here* | Odysseus | | the cave | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into cave=Destination | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e4:o1:1 # text = twelve 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} twenty-two of his bravest men ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e4:o2:1 # text = twenty-two of his bravest men 1 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bravest brave ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} thirty men from the black ships ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e4:o3:1 # text = thirty men from the black ships 1 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e4:o4:1 # text = twenty 1 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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