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# Exam question 1 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

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According to the passage, by what means did the god Asclepius communicate the cure to the sleeping supplicant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** god Asclepius · **What happens:** accord, mean, communicate, sleep · **To what, where:** passage, cure, sleeping supplicant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 530 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and Seasons, part 36: Asclepius heals the sick, Janus guards the gates, and Vertumnus wins Pomona» 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/530-pg22381-part36/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:530-pg22381-part36:e1:1
# text = According to the passage, by what means did the god Asclepius communicate the cure to the sleeping supplicant?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	god	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Asclepius	Asclepius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	communicate	communicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	supplicant	supplicant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the passage *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to passage=Goal |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **communicate** | past · do-support | the god Asclepius | the cure | the sleeping supplicant |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cure=Topic to supplicant=Recipient |
| 4 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP 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 {#o1}

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by sending a sign of the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:530-pg22381-part36:e1:o1:1
# text = by sending a sign of the sun
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | a sign of the sun |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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in a dream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:530-pg22381-part36:e1:o2:1
# text = in a dream
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dream	dream	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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through a priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:530-pg22381-part36:e1:o3:1
# text = through a priest
1	through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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by appearing to him in a dream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:530-pg22381-part36:e1:o4:1
# text = by appearing to him in a dream
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | gerund |  |  | him *= he* | a dream |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Location |

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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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