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title: Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

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Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Apollo · **What happens:** work

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» 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/510-pg22381-part16/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t4:1
# text = Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · do-support | Apollo |  |  |  |  | as a shepherd; Mate *vocative*; long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as shepherd=Attribute |

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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 years, which is proper ages, mate, working for Admetus up in Thessaly

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t4:o1:1
# text = Nine years, which is proper ages, mate, working for Admetus up in Thessaly
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Admetus	Admetus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nine years | proper ages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | proper ages *not said here* | Admetus |  | Thessaly |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent admetus=Material |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nine days, which is well quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t4:o2:1
# text = Nine days, which is well quick
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nine days |  |  |  |  | quick, well *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine years, which is proper ages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t4:o3:1
# text = Nine years, which is proper ages
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nine years | proper ages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nine years, which is proper ages, bruv, and he hated every single minute of it

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:510-pg22381-part16:t4:o4:1
# text = Nine years, which is proper ages, bruv, and he hated every single minute of it
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nine years | proper ages and bruv |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hate** | past | he |  |  |  | minute; year |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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