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title: To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed? — Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed? Exam question 3 of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

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To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tears · **What happens:** assign, shed, depart

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/157-pg11339-part27/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:e3:1
# text = To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	assign	assign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | past · do-support | the tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to whom=Goal |
| 2 | **shed** | past | the tears |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | participle | the tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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To Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:e3:o1:1
# text = To Hermes
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hermes	Hermes	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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To Death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:e3:o2:1
# text = To Death
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To the gods above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:e3:o3:1
# text = To the gods above
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	above	above	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To Grief himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:e3:o4:1
# text = To Grief himself
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Grief	Grief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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