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title: yo so did baby Hermes actually jack like fifty oxen or nah? — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo so did baby Hermes actually jack like fifty oxen or nah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 518 «Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes steals oxen and turns a greedy shepherd to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

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yo so did baby Hermes actually jack like fifty oxen or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** yo · **What happens:** do, jack · **To what, where:** baby

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 518 «Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes steals oxen and turns a greedy shepherd to stone» 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/518-pg22381-part24/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t1:1
# text = yo so did baby Hermes actually jack like fifty oxen or nah?
1	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	jack	jack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | yo | baby |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Eventuality |
| 2 | **jack** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like fifty oxen; actually *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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yeah, fifty, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t1:o1:1
# text = yeah, fifty, no cap
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, sixty tho

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t1:o2:1
# text = yeah, sixty tho
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	tho	tho	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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nah, he just took one ox and ran off lol so chill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t1:o3:1
# text = nah, he just took one ox and ran off lol so chill
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | one ox |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme |
| 2 | **run off** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, only twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t1:o4:1
# text = nah, only twelve
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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