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title: Proper nasty, where did Medusa skive off to? — Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper nasty, where did Medusa skive off to? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

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Proper nasty, where did Medusa skive off to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Medusa · **What happens:** skive off

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» 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/524-pg22381-part30/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t10:1
# text = Proper nasty, where did Medusa skive off to?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	skive	skive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skive off** | past · do-support | Medusa |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t10:o1:1
# text = Africa
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	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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Ida

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t10:o2:1
# text = Ida
1	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crete

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t10:o3:1
# text = Crete
1	Crete	crete	NOUN	NN	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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Ethiopia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t10:o4:1
# text = Ethiopia
1	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	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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