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title: A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus. What would Hippo… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympic… · tree and pragmatics
description: A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus. What would Hippocrates say? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 7 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

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A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus. What would Hippocrates say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** doctor, fever, Hippocrates · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** punishment, Zeus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history 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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:1
# text = A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your fever | a punishment |  | Zeus |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would Hippocrates say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:2
# text = What would Hippocrates say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Hippocrates	Hippocrates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Hippocrates |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Look for the natural cause of the illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:o1:1
# text = Look for the natural cause of the illness
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the natural cause of the illness | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cause=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | the illness |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fevers are caused by sitting too long in the theatre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:o2:1
# text = Fevers are caused by sitting too long in the theatre
1	Fevers	fever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present · passive |  | Fevers |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | the theatre |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in theatre=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Zeus is right, as always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:o3:1
# text = Zeus is right, as always
1	Zeus	zeus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Zeus |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pray to Zeus and do nothing else at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t7:o4:1
# text = Pray to Zeus and do nothing else at all
1	Pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Zeus |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | nothing |  | all |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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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