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title: Which age of humankind is described as enjoying life without sorrow… — Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which age of humankind is described as enjoying life without sorrow or war? Exam question 4 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 o
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# Exam question 4 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

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Which age of humankind is described as enjoying life without sorrow or war?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** describe, enjoy · **To what, where:** age, life

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e4:1
# text = Which age of humankind is described as enjoying life without sorrow or war?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	humankind	humankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which age of humankind |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **enjoy** | gerund |  | life |  |  |  | without sorrow or war | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |

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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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Iron Age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e4:o1:1
# text = Iron Age
1	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Age	Age	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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e4:o2:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Heroic Age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e4:o3:1
# text = The Heroic Age
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Golden Age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:498-pg22381-part4:e4:o4:1
# text = The Golden Age
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Age	Age	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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