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title: lowkey who was the blind old seer who spilled the tea? — Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the trut… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey who was the blind old seer who spilled the tea? Test 10 · ★ 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 choic
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# Test 10 · ★ · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

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lowkey who was the blind old seer who spilled the tea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey, blind old seer · **What happens:** be, spill · **To what, where:** blind old seer, tea

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t10:1
# text = lowkey who was the blind old seer who spilled the tea?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lowkey | the blind old seer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spill** | past | the blind old seer | the tea |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=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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the blind seer from the grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t10:o1:1
# text = the blind seer from the grove
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Calchas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t10:o2:1
# text = Calchas
1	Calchas	Calchas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Tiresias

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t10:o3:1
# text = Tiresias
1	Tiresias	Tiresias	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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Phineus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t10:o4:1
# text = Phineus
1	Phineus	Phineus	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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