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title: Lowkey, where did the pirates reckon they'd nick Dionysus to sell? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, where did the pirates reckon they'd nick Dionysus to sell? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 520 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god's youth, travels and the golden king Midas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god'…

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Lowkey, where did the pirates reckon they'd nick Dionysus to sell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pirates · **What happens:** reckon, nick, sell · **To what, where:** Dionysus

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 520 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god's youth, travels and the golden king Midas» 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/520-pg22381-part26/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:520-pg22381-part26:t5:1
# text = Lowkey, where did the pirates reckon they'd nick Dionysus to sell?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	Dionysus	Dionysus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the pirates |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nick** | would | pirates *= pirate* | Dionysus |  |  |  | Lowkey *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | pirates *= pirate* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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Crete, as a servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:520-pg22381-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = Crete, as a servant
1	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sell him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:520-pg22381-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = Sell him
1	Sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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

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Asia, as a slave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:520-pg22381-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = Asia, as a slave
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Egypt, for a big ransom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:520-pg22381-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = Egypt, for a big ransom
1	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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