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title: Why were the nephews gonna cause trouble for him? — The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why were the nephews gonna cause trouble for him? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone…

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Why were the nephews gonna cause trouble for him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nephews gonna

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» 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/2044-pg976-part3/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2044-pg976-part3:t11:1
# text = Why were the nephews gonna cause trouble for him?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nephews	nephew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the nephews gonna |  |  |  | cause trouble for him | 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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Cos he'd beat up their mates and then go and nick the throne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2044-pg976-part3:t11:o1:1
# text = Cos he'd beat up their mates and then go and nick the throne
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat up** | would | he | their mates |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mate=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **nick** | infinitive | he *not said here* | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cos he'd wreck their plans, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2044-pg976-part3:t11:o2:1
# text = Cos he'd wreck their plans, innit
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wreck	wreck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	compound	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | would | he | their plans |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 2 | **plan** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2044-pg976-part3:t11:o3:1
# text = Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | he | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | gerund | he *not said here* | the crown |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown and the whole palace from them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2044-pg976-part3:t11:o4:1
# text = Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown and the whole palace from them
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | he | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | gerund | he *not said here* | the crown and the whole palace from crown |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |

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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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