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title: Which hero escaped the general slaughter while bearing his aged fath… — Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Gre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which hero escaped the general slaughter while bearing his aged father upon his shoulders? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

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Which hero escaped the general slaughter while bearing his aged father upon his shoulders?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** escape, bear · **To what, where:** general slaughter, aged father

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e4:1
# text = Which hero escaped the general slaughter while bearing his aged father upon his shoulders?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | which hero | the general slaughter |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slaughter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | which hero *not said here* | hero's aged father |  |  |  | upon hero's shoulders | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |

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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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Helenus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e4:o1:1
# text = Helenus
1	Helenus	Helenus	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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Polites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e4:o2:1
# text = Polites
1	Polites	polite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Aeneas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e4:o3:1
# text = Aeneas
1	Aeneas	Aeneas	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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Paris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:e4:o4:1
# text = Paris
1	Paris	Paris	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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