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title: Wait, who was Jason's teacher? — Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who was Jason's teacher? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

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Wait, who was Jason's teacher?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** teacher

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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/2076-pg976-part35/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t5:1
# text = Wait, who was Jason's teacher?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Jason's teacher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 centaur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t5:o1:1
# text = A centaur
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	centaur	centaur	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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Chiron, the centaur with a horse body

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t5:o2:1
# text = Chiron, the centaur with a horse body
1	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	centaur	centaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pelias

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t5:o3:1
# text = Pelias
1	Pelias	Pelias	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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Hercules, the son of Zeus, a hero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t5:o4:1
# text = Hercules, the son of Zeus, a hero
1	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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