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title: With which implement did Atropos sever the thread of human life? — Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: With which implement did Atropos sever the thread of human life? Exam question 2 of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

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With which implement did Atropos sever the thread of human life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Atropos · **What happens:** sever · **To what, where:** thread

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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/523-pg22381-part29/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:e2:1
# text = With which implement did Atropos sever the thread of human life?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Atropos	Atropos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sever** | past · do-support | Atropos | the thread of human life |  |  |  | with which implement | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |

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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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a curved iron dagger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:e2:o1:1
# text = a curved iron dagger
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:e2:o2:1
# text = a knife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:e2:o3:1
# text = scissors
1	scissors	scissors	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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a hatchet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:523-pg22381-part29:e2:o4:1
# text = a hatchet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hatchet	hatchet	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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