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title: ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol — Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol Test 4 · ★ of lesson 522 «Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judged and punished in Tartarus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…

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ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** vultures · **What happens:** get, peck · **To what, where:** vultures, liver

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 522 «Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judged and punished in Tartarus» 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/522-pg22381-part28/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t4:1
# text = ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	pecking	peck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  | vultures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vulture=Stimulus |
| 2 | **peck** | gerund | vultures *not said here* | his liver |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tityus, for insulting Hera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t4:o1:1
# text = Tityus, for insulting Hera
1	Tityus	Tityus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	insulting	insulting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Hera	Hera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Prometheus, chained for stealing fire from Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t4:o2:1
# text = Prometheus, chained for stealing fire from Zeus
1	Prometheus	prometheus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chain** | participle |  | Prometheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund |  | fire |  | Zeus |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from zeus=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Prometheus, for stealing fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t4:o3:1
# text = Prometheus, for stealing fire
1	Prometheus	prometheus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	appos	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | fire |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tantalus, for killing his son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t4:o4:1
# text = Tantalus, for killing his son
1	Tantalus	Tantalus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | gerund | Tantalus *not said here* | Tantalus's son |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |

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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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