--- title: State the number of days during which Demeter pursued her search pri… — Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and… · tree and pragmatics description: State the number of days during which Demeter pursued her search prior to encountering Hecate. Exam question 2 of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» of the books course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/504-pg22381-part10/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/504-pg22381-part10/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:… State the number of days during which Demeter pursued her search prior to encountering Hecate. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Demeter · **What happens:** state, pursue, search, encounter · **To what, where:** number, Hecate This is exam question 2 of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» 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/504-pg22381-part10/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:e2:1 # text = State the number of days during which Demeter pursued her search prior to encountering Hecate. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 during during ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 8 Demeter Demeter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 encountering encounter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 Hecate Hecate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of days | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **pursue** | past | Demeter | | | | during days | | tree rules | | 3 | **search** | infinitive | Demeter *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **encounter** | gerund | Demeter *not said here* | Hecate | | | | | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hecate=Stimulus | 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} Nine days ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:e2:o1:1 # text = Nine days 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Ten days and nights ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:e2:o2:1 # text = Ten days and nights 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nine nights ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:e2:o3:1 # text = Nine nights 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nine days and nights ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:e2:o4:1 # text = Nine days and nights 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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