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title: Lol, the teeth thing, who told him to plant them? — Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, the teeth thing, who told him to plant them? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 7 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

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Lol, the teeth thing, who told him to plant them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teeth thing · **What happens:** tell, plant · **To what, where:** him, them · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» 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/534-pg22381-part40/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t7:1
# text = Lol, the teeth thing, who told him to plant them?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | teeth thing |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **plant** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | teeth thing *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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Hephaestus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t7:o1:1
# text = Hephaestus
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	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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Apollo the Seer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t7:o2:1
# text = Apollo the Seer
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

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

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Pallas-Athene

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t7:o3:1
# text = Pallas-Athene
1	Pallas	Pallas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Athene	Athene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Zeus, king of gods and men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t7:o4:1
# text = Zeus, king of gods and men
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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