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title: Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks? — Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks? Test 12 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

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Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Heracles · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ten tasks

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t12:1
# text = Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks?
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | Heracles | ten tasks |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |

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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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because Hera commanded it to him at birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t12:o1:1
# text = because Hera commanded it to him at birth
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Hera	Hera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | Hera | it | him *= he* | birth |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme at birth=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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to win a kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t12:o2:1
# text = to win a kingdom
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | a kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to repay his debt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t12:o3:1
# text = to repay his debt
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	repay	repay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repay** | to-infinitive |  | his debt |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debt=Recipient |

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

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to end his servitude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t12:o4:1
# text = to end his servitude
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	end	end	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servitude	servitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | to-infinitive |  | his servitude |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality servitude=Eventuality |

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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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