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title: Mate, what did Heracles do to Oechalia? — Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did Heracles do to Oechalia? Test 5 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 5 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

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Mate, what did Heracles do to Oechalia?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Heracles · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Mate, Oechalia

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t5:1
# text = Mate, what did Heracles do to Oechalia?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Oechalia	Oechalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | Heracles | Mate | Oechalia |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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razed it and took the girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t5:o1:1
# text = razed it and took the girl
1	razed	raze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raze** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past |  |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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trashed it and nabbed Iole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t5:o2:1
# text = trashed it and nabbed Iole
1	trashed	trash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	nabbed	nab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	Iole	Iole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trash** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nab** | past |  | Iole |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iole=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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looted the walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t5:o3:1
# text = looted the walls
1	looted	loot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loot** | past |  | the walls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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burnt the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:546-pg22381-part52:t5:o4:1
# text = burnt the town
1	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past |  | the town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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