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title: Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of… — Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Frien… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon. Exam question 3 of lesson 527 «Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# Exam question 3 · Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus…

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Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, deity · **What happens:** specify, command, check, presume · **To what, where:** deity, Pegasus, presumption, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 527 «Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples» 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/527-pg22381-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:e3:1
# text = Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Pegasus	Pegasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	presumption	presumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Helicon	helicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the deity |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent deity=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | the deity | Pegasus |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pegasus=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **check** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the deity *not said here* | the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presumption=Theme |
| 4 | **presume** |  |  | the mountain on Mount Helicon |  |  |  |  | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Hephaestus the smith-god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = Hephaestus the smith-god
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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Poseidon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = Poseidon
1	Poseidon	poseidon	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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:e3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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the sea-god Oceanus the elder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = the sea-god Oceanus the elder
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Oceanus	Oceanus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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

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