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title: wait who actually gave baby Oedipus to the shepherd, innit? — Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the trut… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait who actually gave baby Oedipus to the shepherd, innit? Test 3 · ★ 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 c
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# Test 3 · ★ · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

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wait who actually gave baby Oedipus to the shepherd, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, give, innit · **To what, where:** baby Oedipus, shepherd

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t3:1
# text = wait who actually gave baby Oedipus to the shepherd, innit?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	obl	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Oedipus	oedipus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | baby Oedipus | the shepherd |  |  | actually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent oedipus=Theme to shepherd=Recipient |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the messenger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t3:o1:1
# text = the messenger
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	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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the herdsman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t3:o2:1
# text = the herdsman
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	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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a guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t3:o3:1
# text = a guard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t3:o4:1
# text = the servant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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