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title: By what means did Zeus achieve the defeat of Typhoeus? — Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did Zeus achieve the defeat of Typhoeus? Exam question 2 of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» of the books course of Mova's primary scho
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# Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

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By what means did Zeus achieve the defeat of Typhoeus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zeus · **What happens:** mean, achieve, defeat · **To what, where:** defeat, Typhoeus

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/498-pg22381-part4/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e2:1
# text = By what means did Zeus achieve the defeat of Typhoeus?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Typhoeus	Typhoeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **achieve** | past · do-support | Zeus | the defeat of Typhoeus |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **defeat** |  |  | Typhoeus |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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By a thunderbolt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e2:o1:1
# text = By a thunderbolt
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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By a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e2:o2:1
# text = By a sword
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	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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By trickery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e2:o3:1
# text = By trickery
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	trickery	trickery	NOUN	NN	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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By a bronze spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e2:o4:1
# text = By a bronze spear
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spear	spear	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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