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title: Who kicked the lads back to work in the end? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who kicked the lads back to work in the end? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

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Who kicked the lads back to work in the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** kick back, work · **To what, where:** lads

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» 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/537-pg22381-part43/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t10:1
# text = Who kicked the lads back to work in the end?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick back** | past |  | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | in the end |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in end=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Orpheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t10:o1:1
# text = Orpheus
1	Orpheus	Orpheus	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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Heracles, the big strongman, who yelled at them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t10:o2:1
# text = Heracles, the big strongman, who yelled at them
1	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strongman	strongman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | the big strongman |  |  |  |  | at them *= they* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Heracles, who gave them a proper talking-to

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t10:o3:1
# text = Heracles, who gave them a proper talking-to
1	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Heracles | a proper talking | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient talking=Theme |

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

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Heracles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t10:o4:1
# text = Heracles
1	Heracles	Heracles	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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