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title: and what did the Oak tell jason to do? — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: and what did the Oak tell jason to do? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2078 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with one sandal meets King Pelias and gets a quest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…

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and what did the Oak tell jason to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oak, jason · **What happens:** do, tell · **To what, where:** jason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2078 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with one sandal meets King Pelias and gets a quest» 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/2078-pg976-part37/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2078-pg976-part37:t12:1
# text = and what did the Oak tell jason to do?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	jason	jason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Oak | jason |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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build a galley with fifty oars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2078-pg976-part37:t12:o1:1
# text = build a galley with fifty oars
1	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a galley |  |  |  | with fifty oars | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent galley=Theme with oar=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
build a galley with fifty oars and find Argus to lead the crew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2078-pg976-part37:t12:o2:1
# text = build a galley with fifty oars and find Argus to lead the crew
1	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	Argus	Argus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a galley |  |  |  | with fifty oars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset galley=Beneficiary argus=Product |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the crew |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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build a warship with twelve oars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2078-pg976-part37:t12:o3:1
# text = build a warship with twelve oars
1	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a warship |  |  |  | with twelve oars | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent warship=Theme with oar=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
build a galley with fifty oars and sail to the sea right away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2078-pg976-part37:t12:o4:1
# text = build a galley with fifty oars and sail to the sea right away
1	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a galley |  |  |  | with fifty oars and sail to the sea; away *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent galley=Theme with oar=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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