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title: Did the Pierides win their sing-off? — Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Lov… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the Pierides win their sing-off? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

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Did the Pierides win their sing-off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pierides · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** sing off

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» 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/526-pg22381-part32/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:t10:1
# text = Did the Pierides win their sing-off?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pierides	Pieride	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | the Pierides | Pierides's sing off |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent off=Eventuality |

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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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Nah, they got turned into birds and flew off to the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:t10:o1:1
# text = Nah, they got turned into birds and flew off to the forest
1	Nah	nah	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	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result |
| 2 | **fly off** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the forest *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, they got turned into birds, but they were sent back to their father

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:t10:o2:1
# text = Nah, they got turned into birds, but they were sent back to their father
1	Nah	nah	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	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result |
| 2 | **send back** | past · passive |  | birds *= bird* | birds's father |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to father=Destination |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they got turned into birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:t10:o3:1
# text = Nah, they got turned into birds
1	Nah	nah	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	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they were drowned at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:t10:o4:1
# text = Nah, they were drowned at sea
1	Nah	nah	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:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | past · passive |  | they |  | sea |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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