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title: Yo, which god did Pelias sacrifice to? — Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, which god did Pelias sacrifice to? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

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Yo, which god did Pelias sacrifice to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** god · **What happens:** sacrifice

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/537-pg22381-part43/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t11:1
# text = Yo, which god did Pelias sacrifice to?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
4	god	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | past · do-support | god |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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:537-pg22381-part43:t11: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 {#o2}

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Poseidon, the sea-god who shakes the earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t11:o2:1
# text = Poseidon, the sea-god who shakes the earth
1	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | the sea god | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Poseidon, god of the sea and horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t11:o3:1
# text = Poseidon, god of the sea and horses
1	Poseidon	poseidon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	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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Poseidon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:537-pg22381-part43:t11:o4:1
# 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.

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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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