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title: Dude, who was the Athens king who helped the Heraclidae? — Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, who was the Athens king who helped the Heraclidae? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 551 «Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Thebans flee, Alcmaeon kills his mother, and the Heraclidae win at Athens» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Theba…

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Dude, who was the Athens king who helped the Heraclidae?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, Athens king · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** Athens king, Heraclidae

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 551 «Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Thebans flee, Alcmaeon kills his mother, and the Heraclidae win at Athens» 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/551-pg22381-part57/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:551-pg22381-part57:t7:1
# text = Dude, who was the Athens king who helped the Heraclidae?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Heraclidae	Heraclidae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dude | the Athens king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | past | the Athens king |  | the Heraclidae |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heraclidae=Beneficiary |

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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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King Menestheus, son of Erechtheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:551-pg22381-part57:t7:o1:1
# text = King Menestheus, son of Erechtheus
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Menestheus	Menestheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Erechtheus	Erechtheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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King Pandion, son of Erechtheus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:551-pg22381-part57:t7:o2:1
# text = King Pandion, son of Erechtheus
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Pandion	Pandion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Erechtheus	Erechtheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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King Demophoon, son of Theseus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:551-pg22381-part57:t7:o3:1
# text = King Demophoon, son of Theseus
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Demophoon	Demophoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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King Theseus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:551-pg22381-part57:t7:o4:1
# text = King Theseus
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Theseus	Theseus	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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