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# Test 7 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

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Whoa, Alcmaeon killed Laodamas, right? That's pure rage

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whoa, That · **What happens:** kill, be · **To what, where:** Laodamas, pure rage

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Whoa, Alcmaeon killed Laodamas, right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:1
# text = Whoa, Alcmaeon killed Laodamas, right?
1	Whoa	Whoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Laodamas	Laodamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Whoa | Laodamas |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laodamas=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* That's pure rage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:2
# text = That's pure rage
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | pure rage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, Laodamas died by his hand in battle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, Laodamas died by his hand in battle
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Laodamas	Laodamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Laodamas |  |  |  |  | by Laodamas's hand; in battle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, Laodamas survived and Alcmaeon was the one who died later in a grove of Apollo

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:o2:1
# text = Nah, Laodamas survived and Alcmaeon was the one who died later in a grove of Apollo
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Laodamas	Laodamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | past | Laodamas |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Alcmaeon | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | in a grove of Apollo; late *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in grove=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, Laodamas killed Alcmaeon instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:o3:1
# text = Nah, Laodamas killed Alcmaeon instead
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Laodamas	Laodamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Laodamas | Alcmaeon |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcmaeon=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Yeah, Alcmaeon speared him at the gates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:550-pg22381-part56:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, Alcmaeon speared him at the gates
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	speared	spear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spear** | past | Alcmaeon | him *= he* |  | the gates |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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