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title: Did Thasus actually end up a king? — Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Thasus actually end up a king? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

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Did Thasus actually end up a king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** end up · **To what, where:** Thasus

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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/2057-pg976-part16/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t4:1
# text = Did Thasus actually end up a king?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | present |  | Thasus |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient king=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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Yup, he ruled a small farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t4:o1:1
# text = Yup, he ruled a small farm
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | he | a small farm |  |  |  | Yup *vocative* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, the locals made him one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t4:o2:1
# text = Yup, the locals made him one
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the locals | one | him *= he* |  |  | Yup *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, the locals made him one because he was upright and brave in battle

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t4:o3:1
# text = Yup, the locals made him one because he was upright and brave in battle
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the locals | one | him *= he* | battle |  | Yup *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, the locals made him one and he gave up his robe later on

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t4:o4:1
# text = Yup, the locals made him one and he gave up his robe later on
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the locals | one | him *= he* |  |  | Yup *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product |
| 2 | **give up** | past | he | his robe |  |  |  | late *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Source |

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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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