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title: lol what did the Spartans' one-word reply say? — Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol what did the Spartans' one-word reply say? Test 5 · ★ 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's choice wa
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

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lol what did the Spartans' one-word reply say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** word reply, Spartans · **What happens:** say, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t5:1
# text = lol what did the Spartans' one-word reply say?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Spartans	Spartan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Spartans's word reply |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** |  | the Spartans |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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NO

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t5:o1:1
# text = NO
1	NO	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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NEVER

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t5:o2:1
# text = NEVER
1	NEVER	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ALWAYS

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t5:o3:1
# text = ALWAYS
1	ALWAYS	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	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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IF

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t5:o4:1
# text = IF
1	IF	if	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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