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title: Proper question, how often did the Olympic games happen? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper question, how often did the Olympic games happen? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 500 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Do…

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Proper question, how often did the Olympic games happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Olympic games · **What happens:** do, happen

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 500 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/500-pg22381-part6/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t3:1
# text = Proper question, how often did the Olympic games happen?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | present | the Olympic games |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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every three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = every three years
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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every two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = every two years
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	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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every four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = every four years
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yearly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:500-pg22381-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = yearly
1	yearly	yearly	ADV	RB	_	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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