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title: lowkey who did Oedipus accidentally kill on the road? — Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the trut… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey who did Oedipus accidentally kill on the road? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 549 «Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes» 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the…

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lowkey who did Oedipus accidentally kill on the road?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 549 «Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes» 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/549-pg22381-part55/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t4:1
# text = lowkey who did Oedipus accidentally kill on the road?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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 | **do** | past | lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | present | lowkey |  |  | the road |  | accidentally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Ion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t4:o1:1
# text = Ion
1	Ion	ion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Laius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t4:o2:1
# text = Laius
1	Laius	Laius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Polybus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t4:o3:1
# text = Polybus
1	Polybus	Polybus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:549-pg22381-part55:t4:o4:1
# text = Pan
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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