--- title: Mate, Cerberus had three heads, yeah? — Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, Cerberus had three heads, yeah? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 544 «Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles saves a maiden, wins the oxen and apples, and enters the Underworld» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/544-pg22381-part50/t8/) [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/) / [Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/544-pg22381-part50/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles sa… Mate, Cerberus had three heads, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cerberus · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** three heads This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 544 «Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles saves a maiden, wins the oxen and apples, and enters the Underworld» 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/544-pg22381-part50/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:544-pg22381-part50:t8:1 # text = Mate, Cerberus had three heads, yeah? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Cerberus Cerberus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Cerberus | three heads | | | | Mate *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | 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} Yeah, and a dog's tail. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:544-pg22381-part50:t8:o1:1 # text = Yeah, and a dog's tail. 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, just one. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:544-pg22381-part50:t8:o2:1 # text = Nah, just one. 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, and snakes on his back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:544-pg22381-part50:t8:o3:1 # text = Yeah, and snakes on his back 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, he had two tails. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:544-pg22381-part50:t8:o4:1 # text = Nah, he had two tails. 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | he | two tails | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | **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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