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title: nah mate, what's the river out of the cave called? — Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: nah mate, what's the river out of the cave called? Test 13 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 13 · ★ · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

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nah mate, what's the river out of the cave called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** river, cave, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t13:1
# text = nah mate, what's the river out of the cave called?
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mate and the river | the river |  | the cave |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle · passive |  | mate and the river |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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the Styx, river of oaths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t13:o1:1
# text = the Styx, river of oaths
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Styx	Styx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Acheron of woe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t13:o2:1
# text = Acheron of woe
1	Acheron	Acheron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Lethe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t13:o3:1
# text = Lethe
1	Lethe	Lethe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Styx

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t13:o4:1
# text = Styx
1	Styx	styx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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