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title: Yo, what did the last ones do, stop fighting or what? — Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the last ones do, stop fighting or what? Test 9 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 9 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

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Yo, what did the last ones do, stop fighting or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** last ones · **What happens:** do, stop, fight

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t9:1
# text = Yo, what did the last ones do, stop fighting or what?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present · do-support | the last ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | the last ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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fought on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t9:o1:1
# text = fought on
1	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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swore oaths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t9:o2:1
# text = swore oaths
1	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past |  | oaths |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality |

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

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made peace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t9:o3:1
# text = made peace
1	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they went back to their homes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t9:o4:1
# text = they went back to their homes
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | they |  |  |  |  | to their homes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |

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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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