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title: Which individual was taken captive by Odysseus upon the fall of Troy? — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which individual was taken captive by Odysseus upon the fall of Troy? Exam question 1 of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 1 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

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Which individual was taken captive by Odysseus upon the fall of Troy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Odysseus · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** individual

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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/557-pg22381-part63/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e1:1
# text = Which individual was taken captive by Odysseus upon the fall of Troy?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Troy	Troy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive | Odysseus | which individual |  |  |  | upon the fall of Troy; captive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Helen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e1:o1:1
# text = Helen
1	Helen	helen	NOUN	NN	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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Electra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e1:o2:1
# text = Electra
1	Electra	Electra	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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Hecuba

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e1:o3:1
# text = Hecuba
1	Hecuba	Hecuba	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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Cassandra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e1:o4:1
# text = Cassandra
1	Cassandra	Cassandra	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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