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title: bruh so the name Oedipus means what, like swollen feet? — Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the trut… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh so the name Oedipus means what, like swollen feet? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

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bruh so the name Oedipus means what, like swollen feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** name · **What happens:** mean

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t2:1
# text = bruh so the name Oedipus means what, like swollen feet?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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bad ankles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t2:o1:1
# text = bad ankles
1	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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swollen feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t2:o2:1
# text = swollen feet
1	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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swollen hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t2:o3:1
# text = swollen hands
1	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it means swollen feet from when he was born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t2:o4:1
# text = it means swollen feet from when he was born
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | swollen feet |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Topic |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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