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title: so how'd Medea wanna slip him the death juice? — A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: M… · tree and pragmatics
description: so how'd Medea wanna slip him the death juice? Test 6 · ★ 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 of eac
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# Test 6 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

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so how'd Medea wanna slip him the death juice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Medea · **What happens:** slip · **To what, where:** death juice, him

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t6:1
# text = so how'd Medea wanna slip him the death juice?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	wanna	wanna	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | infinitive | Medea | the death juice | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination juice=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 few drops in his wine cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t6:o1:1
# text = a few drops in his wine cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in cold water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t6:o2:1
# text = in cold water
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	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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a sip from the golden jug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t6:o3:1
# text = a sip from the golden jug
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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a drop in his goblet of wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t6:o4:1
# text = a drop in his goblet of wine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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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