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title: Wot's the Naiades' gig then? — Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot's the Naiades' gig then? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 11 · ★ · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

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Wot's the Naiades' gig then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gig

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» 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/528-pg22381-part34/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:t11:1
# text = Wot's the Naiades' gig then?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Naiades	Naiade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gig	gig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wot | the Naiades's gig |  |  | then |  | 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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making rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:t11:o1:1
# text = making rain
1	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | rain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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looking after springs and lakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:t11:o2:1
# text = looking after springs and lakes
1	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | spring |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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guarding trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:t11:o3:1
# text = guarding trees
1	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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guarding the sea shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:t11:o4:1
# text = guarding the sea shore
1	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | gerund |  | the sea shore |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Beneficiary |

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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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