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title: Who told Jason to go see the king in the morning? — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who told Jason to go see the king in the morning? Test 12 · ★ 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 question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

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Who told Jason to go see the king in the morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** tell, go, see · **To what, where:** Jason, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t12:1
# text = Who told Jason to go see the king in the morning?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Jason |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | the king |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |

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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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Medea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t12:o1:1
# text = Medea
1	Medea	medea	NOUN	NN	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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Aeetes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t12:o2:1
# text = Aeetes
1	Aeetes	aeete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chiron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t12:o3:1
# text = Chiron
1	Chiron	Chiron	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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the old centaur who trained him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t12:o4:1
# text = the old centaur who trained him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	centaur	centaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trained	train	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | past | the old centaur | centaur |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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