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title: so who span the thread of life, proper? — Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who span the thread of life, proper? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

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so who span the thread of life, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** span · **To what, where:** thread

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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/523-pg22381-part29/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t2:1
# text = so who span the thread of life, proper?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	span	span	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **span** | present |  | the thread of life |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thread=Co-Theme |

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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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Hecate of the crossroads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t2:o1:1
# text = Hecate of the crossroads
1	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nemesis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t2:o2:1
# text = Nemesis
1	Nemesis	nemesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Atropos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t2:o3:1
# text = Atropos
1	Atropos	atropos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Lachesis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:t2:o4:1
# text = Lachesis
1	Lachesis	lachesis	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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