---
title: wait, did Midas get rich off a river or off a mountain mine? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, did Midas get rich off a river or off a mountain mine? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 521 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead, part 27: Midas's gold river, then Dionysus and Aides» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/521-pg22381-part27/t13/)

<!-- 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 Greece and Rome, Midas and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/521-pg22381-part27/) / t13

# Test 13 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait, did Midas get rich off a river or off a mountain mine?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Midas · **What happens:** wait, get

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 521 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead, part 27: Midas's gold river, then Dionysus and Aides» 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/521-pg22381-part27/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t13:1
# text = wait, did Midas get rich off a river or off a mountain mine?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Midas	Midas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past · do-support | Midas |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a temple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t13:o1:1
# text = a temple
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t13:o2:1
# text = a river
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a mine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t13:o3:1
# text = a mine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t13:o4:1
# text = a spring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	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 Greece and Rome, Midas and th…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/521-pg22381-part27/t12/)
- next →: [Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and th…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/521-pg22381-part27/e1/)
- ↑ back to [Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead, part 27: Midas's gold river, then Dionysus and Aides](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/521-pg22381-part27/)