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title: Harpies are vultures with girl heads?? that's creepy — Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead… · tree and pragmatics
description: Harpies are vultures with girl heads?? that's creepy Test 7 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 7 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…

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Harpies are vultures with girl heads?? that's creepy

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Harpies, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** vultures

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t7:1
# text = Harpies are vultures with girl heads?? that's creepy
1	Harpies	harpy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Harpies | vultures |  |  |  | with girl heads | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | creepy *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, they steal your food and fly super fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they steal your food and fly super fast
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	super	super	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | present | they | your food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | present | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, they're creepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t7:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they're creepy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | creepy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, they're birds that guard the gates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t7:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they're birds that guard the gates
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guard** | present | birds | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they snatch food and haunt the blind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:522-pg22381-part28:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, they snatch food and haunt the blind
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	snatch	snatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	haunt	haunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | present | they | food |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **haunt** | present | they *not said here* | the blind |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blind=Experiencer |

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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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