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description: Which deity is described in the text as the god of raillery and ridicule? Exam question 1 of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 1 · Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Ero…

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Which deity is described in the text as the god of raillery and ridicule?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** deity, text

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» 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/525-pg22381-part31/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:e1:1
# text = Which deity is described in the text as the god of raillery and ridicule?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	raillery	raillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which deity |  | the text |  | as the god of raillery and ridicule | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as god=Attribute |

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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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:e1:o1:1
# 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 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Momus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:e1:o2:1
# text = Momus
1	Momus	momus	NOUN	NN	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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Aphrodite, who was the goddess of love and beauty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:e1:o3:1
# text = Aphrodite, who was the goddess of love and beauty
1	Aphrodite	aphrodite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Aphrodite | the goddess |  |  |  | of love and beauty | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hephaestus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:e1:o4:1
# text = Hephaestus
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	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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