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# Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

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Upon which river did Heracles and Deianeira first arrive during their journey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Heracles · **What happens:** arrive, journey

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» 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/546-pg22381-part52/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e1:1
# text = Upon which river did Heracles and Deianeira first arrive during their journey?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Deianeira	Deianeira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · do-support | Heracles and Deianeira |  |  |  | during Heracles's journey | upon which river; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **journey** |  | Heracles |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 river Alpheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e1:o1:1
# text = the river Alpheus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Alpheus	Alpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Nile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e1:o2:1
# text = the Nile
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the river Evenus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e1:o3:1
# text = the river Evenus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Evenus	Evenus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Lycus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e1:o4:1
# text = the Lycus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lycus	Lycus	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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