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title: Who did the servant grass on? — Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who did the servant grass on? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 536 «Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a son found again» 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 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a s…

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Who did the servant grass on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do on · **To what, where:** servant grass

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 536 «Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a son found again» 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/536-pg22381-part42/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:536-pg22381-part42:t9:1
# text = Who did the servant grass on?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do on** | past |  | the servant grass |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality |

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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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Creusa, the wife of Xuthus, who had hired the servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:536-pg22381-part42:t9:o1:1
# text = Creusa, the wife of Xuthus, who had hired the servant
1	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past · perfect | the wife of Xuthus | the servant |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Creusa, the wife of Xuthus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:536-pg22381-part42:t9:o2:1
# text = Creusa, the wife of Xuthus
1	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the priestess of Delphi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:536-pg22381-part42:t9:o3:1
# text = the priestess of Delphi
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priestess	priestess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Creusa, the wife of Xuthus and the mother of Dorus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:536-pg22381-part42:t9:o4:1
# text = Creusa, the wife of Xuthus and the mother of Dorus
1	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Dorus	Dorus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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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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