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title: What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus? — Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Lov… · tree and pragmatics
description: What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus? Exam question 2 of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

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What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** penalty, Muses · **What happens:** do, impose

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» 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/526-pg22381-part32/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:e2:1
# text = What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Muses	muse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	impose	impose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Pierus	Pierus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | penalty |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **impose** | present | the Muses |  |  |  |  | upon the daughters of King Pierus | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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transformation into singing birds that could never return home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:e2:o1:1
# text = transformation into singing birds that could never return home
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **return** | could | singing birds |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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transformation into singing birds, as a warning to all mortals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:e2:o2:1
# text = transformation into singing birds, as a warning to all mortals
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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transformation into dark owls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:e2:o3:1
# text = transformation into dark owls
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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transformation into singing birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:526-pg22381-part32:e2:o4:1
# text = transformation into singing birds
1	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | transformation *not said here* | birds |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme |

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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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