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title: Mate, who was the rival at the wedding? — Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Per… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who was the rival at the wedding? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

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Mate, who was the rival at the wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rival, wedding

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» 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/535-pg22381-part41/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t12:1
# text = Mate, who was the rival at the wedding?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the rival | the rival |  | the wedding |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Phineus, brother of the king Cepheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t12:o1:1
# text = Phineus, brother of the king Cepheus
1	Phineus	Phineus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Cepheus	Cepheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pentheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t12:o2:1
# text = Pentheus
1	Pentheus	Pentheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Atlas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t12:o3:1
# text = Atlas
1	Atlas	Atlas	PROPN	NNP	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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Phineus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:t12:o4:1
# text = Phineus
1	Phineus	Phineus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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