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title: Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 9 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…

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Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** teach, drive · **To what, where:** Real talk, Heracles, chariot

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» 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/541-pg22381-part47/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t9:1
# text = Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past |  | Real talk | Heracles |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Real talk *not said here* | a chariot |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme chariot=Trajectory |

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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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the centaur Chiron of Mount Pelion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t9:o1:1
# text = the centaur Chiron of Mount Pelion
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	centaur	centaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Pelion	Pelion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the king's charioteer named Iolaus, who taught him in the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t9:o2:1
# text = the king's charioteer named Iolaus, who taught him in the fields
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Iolaus	Iolaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | the king's charioteer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the king's charioteer |  | Iolaus | the fields |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eurystheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t9:o3:1
# text = Eurystheus
1	Eurystheus	Eurystheus	PROPN	NNP	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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Amphitryon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:541-pg22381-part47:t9:o4:1
# text = Amphitryon
1	Amphitryon	Amphitryon	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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