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title: What's the Golden Fleece, dead simple? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the Golden Fleece, dead simple? Test 5 · ★ 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 of ea
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# Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

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What's the Golden Fleece, dead simple?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Golden Fleece · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t5:1
# text = What's the Golden Fleece, dead simple?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A magic golden fleece nailed to a tree in a grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t5:o1:1
# text = A magic golden fleece nailed to a tree in a grove
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | participle |  | a magic golden fleece *not said here* |  | a grove |  | to a tree | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A gold skin on a sacred tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t5:o2:1
# text = A gold skin on a sacred tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A golden ram's skin in a shrine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t5:o3:1
# text = A golden ram's skin in a shrine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A golden fleece in a grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t5:o4:1
# text = A golden fleece in a grove
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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