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title: Deadass, what did Theseus call Minos? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deadass, what did Theseus call Minos? Test 8 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

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Deadass, what did Theseus call Minos?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Theseus · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Minos · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t8:1
# text = Deadass, what did Theseus call Minos?
1	Deadass	Deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Minos	mino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | Theseus | Minos |  |  |  | Deadass *vocative* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme mino=Result |

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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 thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t8:o1:1
# text = a thief
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a monster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t8:o2:1
# text = a monster
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a coward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t8:o3:1
# text = a coward
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	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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a tyrant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t8:o4:1
# text = a tyrant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	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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