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title: Mate, was Pylades her boyfriend or her cousin? — Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a dee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was Pylades her boyfriend or her cousin? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

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Mate, was Pylades her boyfriend or her cousin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Pylades boyfriend

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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/514-pg22381-part20/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t3:1
# text = Mate, was Pylades her boyfriend or her cousin?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Pylades	Pylade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate | her Pylades boyfriend or her cousin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Her cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t3:o1:1
# text = Her cousin
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	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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Her brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t3:o2:1
# text = Her brother
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	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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Her husband

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t3:o3:1
# text = Her husband
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her cousin, but also her secret lover waiting in Argos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t3:o4:1
# text = Her cousin, but also her secret lover waiting in Argos
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Argos	Argos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | her secret lover *not said here* |  |  | Argos |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in argos=Location |

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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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