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title: wait, who's the dude with the snake-heads dog guarding the gate? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who's the dude with the snake-heads dog guarding the gate? Test 4 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

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wait, who's the dude with the snake-heads dog guarding the gate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, heads dog · **What happens:** wait, be, guard · **To what, where:** dude, gate

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t4:1
# text = wait, who's the dude with the snake-heads dog guarding the gate?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **is a** | present |  | the dude |  |  |  | with the heads dog | tree rules |
| 3 | **guard** | gerund | the heads dog *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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Pegasus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t4:o1:1
# text = Pegasus
1	Pegasus	pegasus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the three-headed dog Cerberus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t4:o2:1
# text = the three-headed dog Cerberus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chimera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t4:o3:1
# text = Chimera
1	Chimera	chimera	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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Cerberus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:521-pg22381-part27:t4:o4:1
# text = Cerberus
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	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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