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title: Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash? — Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

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Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, Centaur · **What happens:** be, ferry · **To what, where:** Centaur, people

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» 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/546-pg22381-part52/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t2:1
# text = Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	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	Centaur	centaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ferried	ferry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate | the Centaur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ferry** | past | the Centaur | people |  |  |  | for cash | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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Pholus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t2:o1:1
# text = Pholus
1	Pholus	Pholus	PROPN	NNP	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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the Centaur Eurytion of Pelion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t2:o2:1
# text = the Centaur Eurytion of Pelion
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Eurytion	Eurytion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pelion	Pelion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nessus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t2:o3:1
# text = Nessus
1	Nessus	Nessus	PROPN	NNP	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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Eurytion the Centaur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t2:o4:1
# text = Eurytion the Centaur
1	Eurytion	Eurytion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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