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title: Minotaur in my game, half bull half man. Real or nah? — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Minotaur in my game, half bull half man. Real or nah? Test 8 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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Minotaur in my game, half bull half man. Real or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** half bull · **What happens:** man

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This is test 8 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history 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/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Minotaur in my game, half bull half man.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:1
# text = Minotaur in my game, half bull half man.
1	Minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	compound	_	_
7	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **man** |  | half bull |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Real or nah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:2
# text = Real or nah?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Real, found in Crete in 1900

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:o1:1
# text = Real, found in Crete in 1900
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle · passive |  | Real |  | Crete |  | in 1900 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A myth; nobody ever leapt over bulls on Crete

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:o2:1
# text = A myth; nobody ever leapt over bulls on Crete
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | past | a myth |  |  | Crete | ever | over bulls | tree rules |

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

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A myth; the bull-leaping was real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:o3:1
# text = A myth; the bull-leaping was real
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	leaping	leaping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a myth and the bull leaping |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Real, but it was a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t8:o4:1
# text = Real, but it was a cow
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a Real cow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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