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title: Which relative of Medea's father taught her the art of enchantment? — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which relative of Medea's father taught her the art of enchantment? Exam question 1 of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

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Which relative of Medea's father taught her the art of enchantment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** relative · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** art, Medea

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2082-pg976-part41/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:e1:1
# text = Which relative of Medea's father taught her the art of enchantment?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | which relative of Medea's father | the art of enchantment | Medea |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient art=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Calypso

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:e1:o1:1
# text = Calypso
1	Calypso	Calypso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The witch who lived on the island beyond the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:e1:o2:1
# text = The witch who lived on the island beyond the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the witch |  |  | the island |  | beyond the sea | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Circe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:e1:o3:1
# text = Circe
1	Circe	circe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Her aunt, the sorceress Circe of Aeaea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2082-pg976-part41:e1:o4:1
# text = Her aunt, the sorceress Circe of Aeaea
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Aeaea	Aeaea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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