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title: Bro, who told Apollo his wife was cheating on him? — Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, who told Apollo his wife was cheating on him? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 509 «Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his love affairs go wrong» 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 was r
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# Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his…

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Bro, who told Apollo his wife was cheating on him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** tell, cheat · **To what, where:** wife, Apollo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 509 «Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his love affairs go wrong» 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/509-pg22381-part15/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:509-pg22381-part15:t8:1
# text = Bro, who told Apollo his wife was cheating on him?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bro | Bro's wife | Apollo |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent apollo=Recipient wife=Topic |
| 2 | **cheat** | past · progressive | Bro |  |  |  |  | on Apollo | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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Hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:509-pg22381-part15:t8:o1:1
# text = Hawk
1	Hawk	hawk	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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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:509-pg22381-part15:t8:o2:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	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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A swan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:509-pg22381-part15:t8:o3:1
# text = A swan
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:509-pg22381-part15:t8:o4:1
# text = A crow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	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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