Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from the sea, and Adonis's sad fate
Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 506 of the books course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, so Aphrodite just popped out the sea, innit? Where'd she land first?
- 1. first Cythera, then Paphos, then the wider Cypriot coast — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Paphos on the island of Cyprus, then Cythera — no support
- 3. Rhodes, then Delos — no support
- 4. Cythera, then Cyprus — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, what was Eresicthon's punishment, like, proper?
- 1. a never-ending hunger — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a curse — no support
- 3. hunger — no support
- 4. a sudden, fatal illness — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Metra a shapeshifter or what, yeah?
- 1. she could change into any beast she desired at will — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. she turned herself into many animals to escape her master's hunger — no support
- 3. she prayed to the gods for help — no support
- 4. she turned into different animals — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Who's the sad one, Adonis? Who killed him, mate?
- 1. Ares, disguised as a wild boar in a jealous rage — no support
- 2. a jealous rival — no support
- 3. a wild boar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. a hunting dog — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 506, line 2: «Aphrodite's love Adonis is killed by a wild boar, so Hades lets him stay with her for half of each year.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «wild boar» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Who dressed Aphrodite up on Cyprus, bruv?
- 1. the attendant nymphs of Demeter's grove — no support
- 2. the Hours, who dressed the goddess in Cyprus — no support
- 3. the Graces — no support
- 4. the Seasons — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 506, line 4: «The Seasons dressed her, and the gods all wanted her, but Hephaestus won her hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Who married Aphrodite, the dead gorgeous one who was lowkey cheating?
- 1. Hephaestus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 2. Poseidon — no support
- 3. Ares — no support
- 4. Dionysus — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 506, line 4: «The Seasons dressed her, and the gods all wanted her, but Hephaestus won her hand.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «hephaestus» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the Roman Ceres just Demeter with a new name, or what?
- 1. yes, Persephone in disguise — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. no, Juno — no support
- 3. yeah, Demeter with a new name — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. no, a separate Italian goddess — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which month was Aphrodite's sacred month in Rome, like, peak?
- 1. March — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. April — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the Kalends of Quintilis — no support
- 4. the first of May, the month of Venus — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Who drives the sun chariot, innit?
- 1. Helios — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Zeus — score 4
- 3. Phoebus — score 4
- 4. Eos — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 506, line 5: «Each day Helios drives his golden chariot across the sky, with Eos going before him and Selene coming after.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drive» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who goes first before the sun comes up, mate?
- 1. Hemera, the Day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Aurora, the Dawn — no support
- 3. Eos, the Dawn — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dawn — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Who's the moon goddess, proper?
- 1. Selene — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nyx — no support
- 3. Hecate — no support
- 4. Luna — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mint, but what were the pearls made of, bruv?
- 1. silver jewelry — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the foam from her silver hair — no support
- 3. drops from her shaking hair — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the salt water that fell from the hair of the goddess — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
With reference to the passage, which deity was the mother of AEneas?
- 1. Persephone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Aphrodite — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Cythera, the goddess who was born at sea — no support
- 4. Aphrodite, goddess of love and daughter of Zeus — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
By which deity was the seasonal arrangement of Adonis determined?
- 1. Hades — score -3
- 2. Hermes — no support
- 3. Zeus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Eos — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 3, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 501, line 9: «WHY: Zeus wants Europa's love, so he takes the form of a gentle bull that "trotted quietly up to the princess, so as not to alarm her."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which substance, according to the text, mingled with the sea to produce the goddess?
- 1. the seed of Cronus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the blood of Uranus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the blood of Uranus, wounded by Cronus — no support
- 4. the blood of Uranus, after Cronus wounded him with a sickle — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what chronological respect did the Roman worship of Venus differ from that of Ceres?
- 1. It was established earlier, before Ceres, in the times of the kings — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. It was introduced by the Greeks through Sicily long before the Romans knew Venus — score 2
- 3. It spread mainly among the common people — no support
- 4. It was established in comparatively later times — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 501, line 19: «OLD WORD: "Impiety" means a lack of respect for the gods; today we would say someone is rude to God or shows no respect for religion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «respect» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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