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description: In accordance with the oracle at Delphi, what number of tasks was required of Heracles? Exam question 2 of lesson 542 «Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, and the first labours» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

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In accordance with the oracle at Delphi, what number of tasks was required of Heracles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** oracle · **What happens:** number, require · **To what, where:** accordance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 542 «Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, and the first labours» 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/542-pg22381-part48/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:e2:1
# text = In accordance with the oracle at Delphi, what number of tasks was required of Heracles?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** |  | the oracle at Delphi and number |  |  |  |  | of tasks | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | past · passive |  |  |  | accordance with the oracle at Delphi and number |  | of Heracles | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |

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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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five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:e2:o1:1
# text = five
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:e2:o2:1
# text = ten
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:e2:o3:1
# text = two
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:e2:o4:1
# text = one
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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