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title: Didn't the king say Jason's not allowed to nick the Fleece? — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Didn't the king say Jason's not allowed to nick the Fleece? Test 7 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

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Didn't the king say Jason's not allowed to nick the Fleece?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king, Jason · **What happens:** do, not say, not allow, nick · **To what, where:** Jason, Fleece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t7:1
# text = Didn't the king say Jason's not allowed to nick the Fleece?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Jason |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | the Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, but only one more try

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t7:o1:1
# text = yes, but only one more try
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	try	try	NOUN	NN	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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no more tries, on pain of death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t7:o2:1
# text = no more tries, on pain of death
1	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pain** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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no more tries, and he must leave Colchis by sunset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t7:o3:1
# text = no more tries, and he must leave Colchis by sunset
1	no	no	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must | he | Colchis |  |  | sunset |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colchis=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, one more try

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t7:o4:1
# text = yes, one more try
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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