---
title: Innit, who swallowed Metis to dodge a prophecy? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, who swallowed Metis to dodge a prophecy? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 500 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/500-pg22381-part6/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/500-pg22381-part6/) / t4

# Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Do…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Innit, who swallowed Metis to dodge a prophecy?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** swallow, dodge · **To what, where:** Metis, prophecy

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 500 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives» 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/500-pg22381-part6/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t4:1
# text = Innit, who swallowed Metis to dodge a prophecy?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Metis	Metis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	dodge	dodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | Innit | Metis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dodge** | to-infinitive | Innit *not said here* | a prophecy |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent prophecy=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Ra
1	Ra	Ra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Hera
1	Hera	hera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Zeus
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Pan
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6:…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/500-pg22381-part6/t3/)
- next →: [Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6:…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/500-pg22381-part6/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/500-pg22381-part6/)

