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title: mate, what gross thing did he dig to catch the blood? — Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visi… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, what gross thing did he dig to catch the blood? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 3 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

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mate, what gross thing did he dig to catch the blood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gross thing · **What happens:** dig, catch · **To what, where:** mate, blood

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» 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/559-pg22381-part65/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t3:1
# text = mate, what gross thing did he dig to catch the blood?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past · do-support | gross thing | mate |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | gross thing *not said here* | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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a well, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t3:o1:1
# text = a well, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cave, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t3:o2:1
# text = a cave, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fountain, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t3:o3:1
# text = a fountain, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a trench, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t3:o4:1
# text = a trench, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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