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title: Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

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Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, everyone · **What happens:** wait, find out · **To what, where:** secret

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» 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/510-pg22381-part16/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t11:1
# text = Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	Midas	Midas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find out** | past · do-support | everyone | Midas's secret |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Reeds kept whispering it, bare embarrassing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t11:o1:1
# text = Reeds kept whispering it, bare embarrassing
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Reeds |  |  |  |  | bare, embarrassing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reeds *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Servants kept blabbing it, proper awkward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t11:o2:1
# text = Servants kept blabbing it, proper awkward
1	Servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blabbing	blab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Servants |  |  |  |  | proper *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blab** *speech: other* | gerund | Servants *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Reeds kept whispering it to everyone who walked by the river, bare embarrassing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t11:o3:1
# text = Reeds kept whispering it to everyone who walked by the river, bare embarrassing
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Reeds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reeds *not said here* | it | everyone |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to everyone=Recipient |
| 3 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Reeds kept whispering it, dead awkward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t11:o4:1
# text = Reeds kept whispering it, dead awkward
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Reeds |  |  |  |  | awkward, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reeds *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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