--- title: Mate, who tells Telemachus the story of the beggar? — Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odyss… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, who tells Telemachus the story of the beggar? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/560-pg22381-part66/t13/) [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/) / [Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odyss…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/560-pg22381-part66/) / t13 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/560-pg22381-part66/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t13:1 # text = Mate, who tells Telemachus the story of the beggar? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Telemachus Telemachus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Eumaeus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t13:o1:1 # text = Eumaeus 1 Eumaeus Eumaeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Eumaeus, the swineherd, who tells him the stranger's tale in the hut ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t13:o2:1 # text = Eumaeus, the swineherd, who tells him the stranger's tale in the hut 1 Eumaeus Eumaeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 swineherd swineherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 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 {#o3} Mentor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t13:o3:1 # text = Mentor 1 Mentor mentor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nestor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t13:o4:1 # text = Nestor 1 Nestor nestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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