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title: Bro, what name did Odysseus pretend to be? — Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Ody… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what name did Odysseus pretend to be? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 558 «Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, escapes the winds and the Laestrygones, and meets Circe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

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Bro, what name did Odysseus pretend to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** name, pretend, be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 558 «Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, escapes the winds and the Laestrygones, and meets Circe» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/558-pg22381-part64/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t2:1
# text = Bro, what name did Odysseus pretend to be?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  | Bro and name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | past · do-support | Bro and name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | to-infinitive | Bro and name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Achilles, the swift one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t2:o1:1
# text = Achilles, the swift one
1	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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Noman, like nobody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t2:o2:1
# text = Noman, like nobody
1	Noman	Noman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Ulysses, king of Troy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t2:o3:1
# text = Ulysses, king of Troy
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Troy	Troy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Noman, like nobody at all, the stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t2:o4:1
# text = Noman, like nobody at all, the stranger
1	Noman	Noman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	appos	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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