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description: Upon the division of the cosmos by lot, which deity was allocated dominion over the sea? Exam question 1 of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» of the b
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# Exam question 1 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

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Upon the division of the cosmos by lot, which deity was allocated dominion over the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** allocate · **To what, where:** dominion, sea

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» 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/498-pg22381-part4/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e1:1
# text = Upon the division of the cosmos by lot, which deity was allocated dominion over the sea?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cosmos	cosmos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	allocated	allocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	dominion	dominion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allocate** | past · passive |  | dominion |  | the sea |  | upon the division of the cosmos by lot and which deity | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: dominion=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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Nereus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e1:o1:1
# text = Nereus
1	Nereus	Nereus	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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Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e1:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Poseidon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e1: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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Triton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e1:o4:1
# text = Triton
1	Triton	Triton	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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