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title: Which claimant appeared at the marriage feast to contest Perseus's r… — Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Per… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which claimant appeared at the marriage feast to contest Perseus's right? Exam question 4 of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

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Which claimant appeared at the marriage feast to contest Perseus's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** claimant · **What happens:** appear, contest · **To what, where:** marriage feast, right

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» 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/535-pg22381-part41/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:e4:1
# text = Which claimant appeared at the marriage feast to contest Perseus's right?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	claimant	claimant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	contest	contest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | which claimant |  |  | the marriage feast |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location |
| 2 | **contest** | to-infinitive | which claimant *not said here* | Perseus's right |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Atlas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:e4:o1:1
# text = Atlas
1	Atlas	Atlas	PROPN	NNP	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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Cepheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:e4:o2:1
# text = Cepheus
1	Cepheus	Cepheus	PROPN	NNP	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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Eos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:e4:o3:1
# text = Eos
1	Eos	eos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Phineus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:535-pg22381-part41:e4:o4:1
# text = Phineus
1	Phineus	Phineus	PROPN	NNP	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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