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title: Wait, was Pan's mum like a sea nymph or a wood nymph? — Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, was Pan's mum like a sea nymph or a wood nymph? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 529 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is born strange, wins the gods' love, makes his pipe, and guards the shepherds» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 2 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

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Wait, was Pan's mum like a sea nymph or a wood nymph?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 529 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is born strange, wins the gods' love, makes his pipe, and guards the shepherds» 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/529-pg22381-part35/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:529-pg22381-part35:t2:1
# text = Wait, was Pan's mum like a sea nymph or a wood nymph?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Pan's mum |  |  |  | like a sea nymph or a wood nymph | 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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a nymph from the hills, like, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:529-pg22381-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = a nymph from the hills, like, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

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a wood nymph

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:529-pg22381-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = a wood nymph
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	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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a shepherd girl from the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:529-pg22381-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = a shepherd girl from the hills
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a river goddess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:529-pg22381-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = a river goddess
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	goddess	goddess	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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**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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