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title: real talk, how long did Demeter hunt for her girl? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, how long did Demeter hunt for her girl? Test 4 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree a
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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…

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real talk, how long did Demeter hunt for her girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Demeter · **What happens:** hunt

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This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t4:1
# text = real talk, how long did Demeter hunt for her girl?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Demeter	Demeter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · do-support | Demeter |  |  |  |  | for Demeter's girl; long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for girl=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nine days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t4: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	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nine days and nights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t4:o2:1
# 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	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ten days and nights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t4:o3:1
# 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	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three days and nights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t4:o4:1
# text = Three days and nights
1	Three	three	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	_	_
```

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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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