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title: yo who shoved old Theseus off that cliff, no cap? — Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the trut… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo who shoved old Theseus off that cliff, no cap? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 549 «Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes» 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 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

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yo who shoved old Theseus off that cliff, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** shove · **To what, where:** old Theseus, cliff

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 549 «Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes» 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/549-pg22381-part55/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t1:1
# text = yo who shoved old Theseus off that cliff, no cap?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shoved	shove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | past |  | old Theseus |  | that cliff |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent theseus=Theme off cliff=Initial\_Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Lycomedes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t1:o1:1
# text = Lycomedes
1	Lycomedes	Lycomedes	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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Aegeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t1:o2:1
# text = Aegeus
1	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Peleus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t1:o3:1
# text = Peleus
1	Peleus	Peleus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Menestheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t1:o4:1
# text = Menestheus
1	Menestheus	Menestheus	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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