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title: From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tith… · tree and pragmatics
description: From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born? Exam question 2 of lesson 508 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

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From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Phoebus · **What happens:** be, say, bear · **To what, where:** god, island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 508 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos» 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/508-pg22381-part14/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:508-pg22381-part14:e2:1
# text = From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born?
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the god |  | which island |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Phoebus  Apollo | the god *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=Topic |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Phoebus  Apollo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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Kos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:508-pg22381-part14:e2:o1:1
# text = Kos
1	Kos	Kos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Delos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:508-pg22381-part14:e2:o2:1
# text = Delos
1	Delos	Delos	PROPN	NNP	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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Ios

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:508-pg22381-part14:e2:o3:1
# text = Ios
1	Ios	io	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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Lemnos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:508-pg22381-part14:e2:o4:1
# text = Lemnos
1	Lemnos	Lemnos	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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