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title: bruv, what were the Furies' hair full of? — Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, what were the Furies' hair full of? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

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bruv, what were the Furies' hair full of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hair

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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/523-pg22381-part29/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t1:1
# text = bruv, what were the Furies' hair full of?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Furies	fury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bruv and the Furies's hair | the Furies's hair |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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serpents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t1:o1:1
# text = serpents
1	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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writhing black serpents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t1:o2:1
# text = writhing black serpents
1	writhing	writhe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **writhe** | gerund |  | black serpents |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location serpent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t1:o3:1
# text = snakes
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bronze wire and thorns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t1:o4:1
# text = bronze wire and thorns
1	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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