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title: Hold up, who sent the Sphinx to bother the Thebans? — Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold up, who sent the Sphinx to bother the Thebans? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

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Hold up, who sent the Sphinx to bother the Thebans?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold up, send, bother · **To what, where:** Sphinx, Thebans

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» 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/524-pg22381-part30/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t12:1
# text = Hold up, who sent the Sphinx to bother the Thebans?
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Thebans	Theban	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | the Sphinx |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sphinx=Theme |
| 3 | **bother** | to-infinitive |  | the Thebans |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus theban=Experiencer |

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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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Hestia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t12:o1:1
# text = Hestia
1	Hestia	Hestia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Hera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t12:o2:1
# text = Hera
1	Hera	hera	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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Persephone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t12:o3:1
# text = Persephone
1	Persephone	persephone	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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Demeter, goddess of the harvest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:524-pg22381-part30:t12:o4:1
# text = Demeter, goddess of the harvest
1	Demeter	demeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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