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title: Which leader of the Thebans, slain by Alcmaeon, was the son of Eteoc… — Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven A… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which leader of the Thebans, slain by Alcmaeon, was the son of Eteocles? Exam question 4 of lesson 550 «Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part 56: the Argives fight for Thebes and the heroes die» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 4 · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

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Which leader of the Thebans, slain by Alcmaeon, was the son of Eteocles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** slay, be · **To what, where:** Thebans, son

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 550 «Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part 56: the Argives fight for Thebes and the heroes die» 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/550-pg22381-part56/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:e4:1
# text = Which leader of the Thebans, slain by Alcmaeon, was the son of Eteocles?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Thebans	Theban	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Eteocles	Eteocles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | participle |  | the Thebans *not said here* |  |  |  | by Alcmaeon | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | which leader | the son |  |  |  | of Eteocles | 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 {#o1}

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Polynices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:e4:o1:1
# text = Polynices
1	Polynices	polynice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Haemon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:e4:o2:1
# text = Haemon
1	Haemon	Haemon	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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Laodamas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:e4:o3:1
# text = Laodamas
1	Laodamas	Laodamas	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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Creon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:e4:o4:1
# text = Creon
1	Creon	Creon	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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**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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