--- title: Dead serious, what made the sand snakes? — Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Per… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead serious, what made the sand snakes? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/535-pg22381-part41/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Per…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/535-pg22381-part41/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s… Dead serious, what made the sand snakes? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** sand snakes This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» 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/535-pg22381-part41/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t13:1 # text = Dead serious, what made the sand snakes? 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | | the sand snakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material snake=Product | 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 {#o1} the dripping rain of Zeus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t13:o1:1 # text = the dripping rain of Zeus 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dripping drip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ _ 3 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Zeus Zeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **rain** | | | Zeus | | | | | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Medusa's dripping blood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t13:o2:1 # text = Medusa's dripping blood 1 Medusa Medusa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dripping drip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 amod _ _ 4 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t13:o3:1 # text = the sea 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Poseidon's dripping rain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t13:o4:1 # text = Poseidon's dripping rain 1 Poseidon Poseidon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dripping dripping NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rain** | | Poseidon | | | | | | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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