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title: Medea reckoned Jason's night's work was what, exactly? — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Medea reckoned Jason's night's work was what, exactly? Test 9 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

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Medea reckoned Jason's night's work was what, exactly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Medea, work, night · **What happens:** reckon, be, work

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t9:1
# text = Medea reckoned Jason's night's work was what, exactly?
1	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | Medea |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Jason's night's work |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | Jason's night |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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badly performed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t9:o1:1
# text = badly performed
1	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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it was a brilliant feat, well worth the praise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t9:o2:1
# text = it was a brilliant feat, well worth the praise
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
8	worth	worth	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a brilliant feat and the praise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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well performed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t9:o3:1
# text = well performed
1	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very well done, but cruelly so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2083-pg976-part42:t9:o4:1
# text = very well done, but cruelly so
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | cruelly, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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