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title: ngl, which god is the messenger guy? — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, which god is the messenger guy? Test 11 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

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ngl, which god is the messenger guy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl god · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** messenger guy

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t11:1
# text = ngl, which god is the messenger guy?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which ngl god | the messenger guy |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t11:o1:1
# text = Ares
1	Ares	ar	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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Hermes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t11:o2:1
# text = Hermes
1	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hephaestus, the lame smith god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t11:o3:1
# text = Hephaestus, the lame smith god
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Poseidon, lord of the sea waves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t11:o4:1
# text = Poseidon, lord of the sea waves
1	Poseidon	poseidon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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