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title: Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigeni… — Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a dee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigenia to Aulis? Exam question 1 of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 1 · Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl…

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Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigenia to Aulis?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** reason · **What happens:** give, summon · **To what, where:** Clytemnaestra, Iphigenia, Aulis

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 514 «Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar» 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/514-pg22381-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:e1:1
# text = Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigenia to Aulis?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Clytemnaestra	Clytemnaestra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	Iphigenia	Iphigenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Aulis	Aulis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | which reason | Clytemnaestra |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clytemnaestra=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | gerund | which reason *not said here* | Iphigenia | Aulis |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iphigenia=Recipient |

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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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A festival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = A festival
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	festival	festival	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 lie that Menelaus had summoned her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = The lie that Menelaus had summoned her
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	Menelaus	Menelaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past · perfect | Menelaus | the lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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The pretext that Achilles desired to marry her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = The pretext that Achilles desired to marry her
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pretext	pretext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | the pretext |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the pretext *not said here* | Achilles |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The claim that Odysseus had demanded her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:514-pg22381-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = The claim that Odysseus had demanded her
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past · perfect · passive |  | the claim |  |  |  |  | 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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