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title: By whose agency was the rock to which Ajax clung rent asunder? — Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return o… · tree and pragmatics
description: By whose agency was the rock to which Ajax clung rent asunder? Exam question 2 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 pragmat
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# Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

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By whose agency was the rock to which Ajax clung rent asunder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** agency, Ajax · **What happens:** be, cling · **To what, where:** rock, rent asunder

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e2:1
# text = By whose agency was the rock to which Ajax clung rent asunder?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	Ajax	Ajax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the rock's agency | the rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cling** | past | Ajax | rent asunder |  |  |  | to the rock | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=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 {#o1}

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Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e2:o1:1
# text = Zeus
1	Zeus	Zeus	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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e2:o2:1
# text = Hermes
1	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Poseidon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e2:o3:1
# text = Poseidon
1	Poseidon	poseidon	NOUN	NN	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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Athene

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:557-pg22381-part63:e2:o4:1
# text = Athene
1	Athene	athene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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