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title: do sirens look like mermaids then? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and A… · tree and pragmatics
description: do sirens look like mermaids then? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 517 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis weds Peleus, then the war-god Ares is hated by his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
do sirens look like mermaids then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sirens · **What happens:** look

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 517 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis weds Peleus, then the war-god Ares is hated by his father» 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/517-pg22381-part23/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:517-pg22381-part23:t8:1
# text = do sirens look like mermaids then?
1	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	sirens	siren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | sirens |  |  |  | then | like mermaids | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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yeah, top half fish, bottom half girl with fins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:517-pg22381-part23:t8:o1:1
# text = yeah, top half fish, bottom half girl with fins
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, top half girl, bottom half fish with fins and scales, and they swim fast

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:517-pg22381-part23:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah, top half girl, bottom half fish with fins and scales, and they swim fast
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | scales *= scale* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings and claws and feathers all over

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:517-pg22381-part23:t8:o3:1
# text = nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings and claws and feathers all over
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seabird	seabird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:517-pg22381-part23:t8:o4:1
# text = nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seabird	seabird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

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