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title: Who was responsible for the death of King Priam at the altar of Zeus? — Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Gre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was responsible for the death of King Priam at the altar of Zeus? Exam question 2 of lesson 556 «Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wooden horse and enter Troy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 2 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

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Who was responsible for the death of King Priam at the altar of Zeus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King Priam · **What happens:** be, die · **To what, where:** altar

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 556 «Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wooden horse and enter Troy» 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/556-pg22381-part62/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e2:1
# text = Who was responsible for the death of King Priam at the altar of Zeus?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Priam	Priam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the altar of Zeus |  | for the death of King Priam; responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** |  | King Priam |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Neoptolemus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e2:o1:1
# text = Neoptolemus
1	Neoptolemus	Neoptolemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Achilles' son Neoptolemus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e2:o2:1
# text = Achilles' son Neoptolemus
1	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Neoptolemus	Neoptolemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sinon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e2:o3:1
# text = Sinon
1	Sinon	Sinon	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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Telemachus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e2:o4:1
# text = Telemachus
1	Telemachus	Telemachus	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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