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title: Which god was the limping one, like? — Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a dee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which god was the limping one, like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

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Which god was the limping one, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** god · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** limping

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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/514-pg22381-part20/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t8:1
# text = Which god was the limping one, like?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	limping	limping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which god | the limping |  |  |  |  | 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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Hermes, the winged messenger who stole the cattle as a baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t8:o1:1
# text = Hermes, the winged messenger who stole the cattle as a baby
1	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | past | the winged messenger | the cattle |  |  |  | as a baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cattle=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cronus, the titan father who swallowed his children and was later overthrown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t8:o2:1
# text = Cronus, the titan father who swallowed his children and was later overthrown
1	Cronus	cronus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	titan	titan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | the titan father | his children |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past · passive |  | Cronus |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Prometheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t8:o3:1
# text = Prometheus
1	Prometheus	prometheus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hephaestus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t8:o4:1
# text = Hephaestus
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	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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