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title: lol what did Medea say she could boil old folks into? — A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: M… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol what did Medea say she could boil old folks into? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

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lol what did Medea say she could boil old folks into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Medea · **What happens:** say, boil · **To what, where:** old folks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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/2045-pg976-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t3:1
# text = lol what did Medea say she could boil old folks into?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | could | Medea | old folks |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent folk=Patient |

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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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young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = young
1	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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newer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = newer
1	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	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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younger again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = younger again
1	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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strong once more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = strong once more
1	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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