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title: By which deity was the seasonal arrangement of Adonis determined? — Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphro… · tree and pragmatics
description: By which deity was the seasonal arrangement of Adonis determined? Exam question 2 of lesson 506 «Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from the sea, and Adonis's sad fate» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 2 · Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from th…

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By which deity was the seasonal arrangement of Adonis determined?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, determine · **To what, where:** seasonal arrangement, Adonis

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 506 «Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from the sea, and Adonis's sad fate» 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/506-pg22381-part12/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:e2:1
# text = By which deity was the seasonal arrangement of Adonis determined?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Adonis	adonis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the seasonal arrangement |  |  |  | by which deity; of Adonis | tree rules |
| 2 | **determine** | participle |  | Adonis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Hades

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:e2:o1:1
# text = Hades
1	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12: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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Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:e2:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Eos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:e2:o4:1
# text = Eos
1	Eos	eos	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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**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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