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title: Which winds were said to be the children of Eos and Astraeus? — Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which winds were said to be the children of Eos and Astraeus? Exam question 4 of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

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Which winds were said to be the children of Eos and Astraeus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** winds, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» 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/528-pg22381-part34/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:e4:1
# text = Which winds were said to be the children of Eos and Astraeus?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Eos	Eos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Astraeus	Astraeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | which winds |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the children |  |  |  | of Eos and Astraeus | tree rules |

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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 winds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:e4:o1:1
# text = the winds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	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 seven planetary stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:e4:o2:1
# text = the seven planetary stars
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	planetary	planetary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	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 storms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:e4:o3:1
# text = the storms
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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 four principal winds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:528-pg22381-part34:e4:o4:1
# text = the four principal winds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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