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title: what's Achilles on about, moaning he's dead? — Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visi… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's Achilles on about, moaning he's dead? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 12 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

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what's Achilles on about, moaning he's dead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Achilles · **What happens:** be, moan · **To what, where:** Achilles

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» 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/559-pg22381-part65/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t12:1
# text = what's Achilles on about, moaning he's dead?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Achilles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **moan** | gerund | Achilles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Achilles |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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 {#o1}

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he'd be a sailor, not king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t12:o1:1
# text = he'd be a sailor, not king
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | he | a sailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd be a soldier, not king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t12:o2:1
# text = he'd be a soldier, not king
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | he | a soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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he'd be a day-labourer, not king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t12:o3:1
# text = he'd be a day-labourer, not king
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | he | a day labourer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd be a shepherd, not king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t12:o4:1
# text = he'd be a shepherd, not king
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | he | a shepherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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