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description: What was the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors' conduct? Exam question 3 of lesson 2083 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors sprout from the teeth and fight to the death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

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What was the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors' conduct?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nature, Medea, fallen warriors · **What happens:** be, fall, comment, conduct

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2083 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors sprout from the teeth and fight to the death» 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/2083-pg976-part42/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:e3:1
# text = What was the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors' conduct?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors's conduct |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **comment** |  | Medea |  |  |  |  | upon the fallen warriors's conduct | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl |
| 4 | **conduct** |  | the fallen warriors |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She ridiculed their vanity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:e3:o1:1
# text = She ridiculed their vanity
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ridiculed	ridicule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ridicule** | past | She | their vanity |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanity=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She praised their courage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:e3:o2:1
# text = She praised their courage
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | She | their courage |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She scorned their foolishness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:e3:o3:1
# text = She scorned their foolishness
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorn** | past | She | their foolishness |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foolishness=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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She mocked them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:e3:o4:1
# text = She mocked them
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | past | She | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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