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title: Which people spared the island of Delos when sailing against Greece? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which people spared the island of Delos when sailing against Greece? Exam question 3 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 p
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# Exam question 3 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus lo…

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Which people spared the island of Delos when sailing against Greece?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** spare, sail · **To what, where:** island

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e3:1
# text = Which people spared the island of Delos when sailing against Greece?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Delos	Delos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | past | which people | the island of Delos |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent island=Asset |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | which people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Greece | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the Carthaginians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e3:o1:1
# text = the Carthaginians
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Carthaginians	Carthaginian	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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the Athenians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e3:o2:1
# text = the Athenians
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	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 Persian king Xerxes and his army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e3:o3:1
# text = the Persian king Xerxes and his army
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Xerxes	xerx	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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 Persians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:511-pg22381-part17:e3:o4:1
# text = the Persians
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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