--- title: who was Orestes' bestie so loyal it's basically a saying now — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics description: who was Orestes' bestie so loyal it's basically a saying now Test 10 · ★ of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/557-pg22381-part63/t10/) [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/) / [Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/557-pg22381-part63/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr… who was Orestes' bestie so loyal it's basically a saying now **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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/557-pg22381-part63/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t10:1 # text = who was Orestes' bestie so loyal it's basically a saying now 1 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 Orestes Orestes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 bestie bestie X FW Foreign=Yes 7 dep _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 basically basically ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | loyal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | it | | | | now | basically *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} Agamemnon, his cousin and brother-in-law ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t10:o1:1 # text = Agamemnon, his cousin and brother-in-law 1 Agamemnon Agamemnon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Menelaus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t10:o2:1 # text = Menelaus 1 Menelaus Menelaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Pylades ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t10:o3:1 # text = Pylades 1 Pylades pylade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Diomedes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t10:o4:1 # text = Diomedes 1 Diomedes Diomedes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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