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title: which god totally split the rock with his trident, that's wild — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics
description: which god totally split the rock with his trident, that's wild Test 4 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

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which god totally split the rock with his trident, that's wild

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** god, that · **What happens:** split, be · **To what, where:** rock

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t4:1
# text = which god totally split the rock with his trident, that's wild
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	trident	trident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | which god | the rock |  |  |  | with god's trident; totally *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with trident=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Hephaestus the smith god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t4:o1:1
# text = Hephaestus the smith god
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t4:o2:1
# text = Ares
1	Ares	ar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Poseidon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t4:o3:1
# text = Poseidon
1	Poseidon	poseidon	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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:t4:o4:1
# text = Hermes
1	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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