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title: Who was the sus king running Crete? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the sus king running Crete? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

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Who was the sus king running Crete?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus king · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** sus king, Crete

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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/2047-pg976-part6/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t5:1
# text = Who was the sus king running Crete?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	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	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	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 sus king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the sus king *not said here* | Crete |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crete=Agent |

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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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the cruel ruler of the island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t5:o1:1
# text = the cruel ruler of the island
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Minos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t5:o2:1
# text = Minos
1	Minos	mino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Aegeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t5:o3:1
# text = Aegeus
1	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Icarus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t5:o4:1
# text = Icarus
1	Icarus	Icarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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