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title: did Zeus win or nah? — Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and… · tree and pragmatics
description: did Zeus win or nah? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 497 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus swallows his children, and Rhea saves Zeus with a stone» 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 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…

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did Zeus win or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zeus · **What happens:** win

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 497 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus swallows his children, and Rhea saves Zeus with a stone» 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/497-pg22381-part3/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:497-pg22381-part3:t10:1
# text = did Zeus win or nah?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · do-support | Zeus |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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Yeah, he overthrew Cronus and took the throne of the gods for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:497-pg22381-part3:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he overthrew Cronus and took the throne of the gods for good
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past | he | Cronus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | he *not said here* | the throne of the gods |  |  |  | for good | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent throne=Theme for good=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he seized Cronus' crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:497-pg22381-part3:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he seized Cronus' crown
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | he | Cronus's crown |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 2 | **crown** |  | Cronus |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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yeah, he took the throne from Cronus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:497-pg22381-part3:t10:o3:1
# text = yeah, he took the throne from Cronus
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | the throne |  | Cronus |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent throne=Theme from cronus=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yep, he defeated Cronus at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:497-pg22381-part3:t10:o4:1
# text = Yep, he defeated Cronus at last
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past | he | Cronus |  | last |  |  | tree rules |

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