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title: Yo, what was the monster in the sea? — Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Per… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the monster in the sea? Test 7 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

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Yo, what was the monster in the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** monster, sea

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t7:1
# text = Yo, what was the monster in the sea?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the monster |  | the sea |  |  | 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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a huge sea beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t7:o1:1
# text = a huge sea beast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	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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a kraken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t7:o2:1
# text = a kraken
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kraken	kraken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sea dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t7:o3:1
# text = a sea dragon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	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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a serpent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t7:o4:1
# text = a serpent
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	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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