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title: Which temple originally preserved the Sibylline books before the fire? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which temple originally preserved the Sibylline books before the fire? Exam question 2 of lesson 511 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus loses Eurydice twice, then dies, and Apollo's worship is described» 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, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus lo…

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Which temple originally preserved the Sibylline books before the fire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** temple · **What happens:** preserve · **To what, where:** Sibylline books

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 511 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus loses Eurydice twice, then dies, and Apollo's worship is described» 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/511-pg22381-part17/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e2:1
# text = Which temple originally preserved the Sibylline books before the fire?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sibylline	sibylline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | past | which temple | the Sibylline books |  |  | before the fire | originally *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Beneficiary |

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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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the temple of Mars on the Campus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e2:o1:1
# text = the temple of Mars on the Campus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Campus	campus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the temple of Juno at Veii

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e2:o2:1
# text = the temple of Juno at Veii
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Juno	Juno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Veii	Veii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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the temple of Jupiter at Rome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e2:o3:1
# text = the temple of Jupiter at Rome
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the temple of Apollo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e2:o4:1
# text = the temple of Apollo
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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