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title: Mum, how did the mothers feel when their boys died, though? — Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a dee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, how did the mothers feel when their boys died, though? Test 7 · ★ 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 wr
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# Test 7 · ★ · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

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Mum, how did the mothers feel when their boys died, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, boys · **What happens:** feel, die

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t7:1
# text = Mum, how did the mothers feel when their boys died, though?
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | past | mothers's boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t7:o1:1
# text = Sad
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Proud, rejoicing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t7:o2:1
# text = Proud, rejoicing
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Relieved, calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t7:o3:1
# text = Relieved, calm
1	Relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:t7:o4:1
# text = Angry
1	Angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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