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title: yo, what was the name of the land Alexander's dad ruled? — Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what was the name of the land Alexander's dad ruled? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 13 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

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yo, what was the name of the land Alexander's dad ruled?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** be, rule · **To what, where:** name, land

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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/353-pg18442-part13/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t13:1
# text = yo, what was the name of the land Alexander's dad ruled?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the name |  |  |  | of the land | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | past | Alexander's dad | the land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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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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Peloponnese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t13:o1:1
# text = Peloponnese
1	Peloponnese	peloponnese	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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Macedonia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t13:o2:1
# text = Macedonia
1	Macedonia	macedonia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sparta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t13:o3:1
# text = Sparta
1	Sparta	sparta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Macedon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t13:o4:1
# text = Macedon
1	Macedon	macedon	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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**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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