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title: Wait, what did the old lady promise Jason? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the old lady promise Jason? Test 12 · ★ 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 and 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

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Wait, what did the old lady promise Jason?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, old lady · **What happens:** wait, promise · **To what, where:** Jason

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t12:1
# text = Wait, what did the old lady promise Jason?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | the old lady |  | Jason |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent jason=Goal what=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 {#o1}

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To help him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t12:o1:1
# text = To help him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To shelter him from storms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t12:o2:1
# text = To shelter him from storms
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  | storms |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient from storm=Beneficiary |

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

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To guide and protect him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t12:o3:1
# text = To guide and protect him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	guide	guide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	protect	protect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **protect** | infinitive |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To give gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t12:o4:1
# text = To give gold
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | gold |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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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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