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title: Like, what was the lion wrecking near Cithaeron? — Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what was the lion wrecking near Cithaeron? Test 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 and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

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Like, what was the lion wrecking near Cithaeron?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** be, wreck · **To what, where:** lion, Cithaeron

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This is test 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t2:1
# text = Like, what was the lion wrecking near Cithaeron?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	wrecking	wreck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Cithaeron	Cithaeron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the lion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wreck** | gerund | the lion *not said here* |  |  | Cithaeron |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t2:o1:1
# text = the sheep
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the herds of the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t2:o2:1
# text = the herds of the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the cattle and oxen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t2:o3:1
# text = the cattle and oxen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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the flocks and herds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:542-pg22381-part48:t2:o4:1
# text = the flocks and herds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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