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title: Bro, what did Vice promise him? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Vice promise him? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…

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Bro, what did Vice promise him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Vice · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** Bro, him

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» 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/541-pg22381-part47/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t10:1
# text = Bro, what did Vice promise him?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Vice	Vice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Vice | Bro | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal he=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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Fame and gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t10:o1:1
# text = Fame and gold
1	Fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A soft life of feasts and gold with no labor or duty at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t10:o2:1
# text = A soft life of feasts and gold with no labor or duty at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Pleasure with no hard work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t10:o3:1
# text = Pleasure with no hard work
1	Pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Riches without any cost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t10:o4:1
# text = Riches without any cost
1	Riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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