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title: Who does the king say is his dad, the sea god or what? — A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who does the king say is his dad, the sea god or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 8 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

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Who does the king say is his dad, the sea god or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king say · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** sea god

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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/2077-pg976-part36/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2077-pg976-part36:t8:1
# text = Who does the king say is his dad, the sea god or what?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the king say | the sea god |  |  |  |  | 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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Apollo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2077-pg976-part36:t8:o1:1
# text = Apollo
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	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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Neptune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2077-pg976-part36:t8:o2:1
# text = Neptune
1	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	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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The sea god who rules the stormy ocean waves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2077-pg976-part36:t8:o3:1
# text = The sea god who rules the stormy ocean waves
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** |  | the sea god and rules | the stormy ocean waves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Vulcan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2077-pg976-part36:t8:o4:1
# text = Vulcan
1	Vulcan	Vulcan	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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