--- title: Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upo… — Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upon the completion of the labour assigned to him? Exam question 2 of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» of the books course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/543-pg22381-part49/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/543-pg22381-part49/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo… Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upon the completion of the labour assigned to him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** refuse, not render, promise, assign, complete · **To what, where:** promised recompense, Heracles, labour, king This is exam question 2 of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» 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/543-pg22381-part49/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:e2:1 # text = Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upon the completion of the labour assigned to him? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 render render VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 recompense recompense NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Heracles Heracles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 completion completion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 assigned assign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | which king | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **render** | to-infinitive | which king *not said here* | the promised recompense | Heracles | | | upon the completion of the labour | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent recompense=Theme to heracles=Recipient | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **assign** | participle | | the labour *not said here* | king | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal | | 5 | **complete** | | | the labour | | | | | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} Minos, King of Crete ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:e2:o1:1 # text = Minos, King of Crete 1 Minos mino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Crete Crete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Eurystheus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:e2:o2:1 # text = Eurystheus 1 Eurystheus Eurystheus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Augeas ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:e2:o3:1 # text = Augeas 1 Augeas augea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Augeas, King of Elis ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:e2:o4:1 # text = Augeas, King of Elis 1 Augeas augea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Elis Elis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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