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description: What purpose did the dying Centaur assign to the blood that Deianeira was to preserve? Exam question 2 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, with the dependency tr
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# Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

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What purpose did the dying Centaur assign to the blood that Deianeira was to preserve?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** purpose, Deianeira · **What happens:** do, die, be · **To what, where:** dying Centaur assign

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e2:1
# text = What purpose did the dying Centaur assign to the blood that Deianeira was to preserve?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
6	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	assign	assign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	Deianeira	Deianeira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | purpose | the dying Centaur assign |  |  |  | to the blood | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | Deianeira |  |  |  |  | preserve *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to serve as a love-charm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e2:o1:1
# text = to serve as a love-charm
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as a love charm | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as charm=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to heal wounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e2:o2:1
# text = to heal wounds
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | to-infinitive |  | wounds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to bind a lover close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e2:o3:1
# text = to bind a lover close
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bind	bind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | to-infinitive |  | a lover |  |  |  | close *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to win back love fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:e2:o4:1
# text = to win back love fast
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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