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title: so Hermes was the patron of thieves, innit? lol — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: so Hermes was the patron of thieves, innit? lol Test 12 · ★ 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
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# Test 12 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

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so Hermes was the patron of thieves, innit? lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hermes, you · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** patron

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t12:1
# text = so Hermes was the patron of thieves, innit? lol
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hermes | the patron |  |  |  | of thieves | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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yeah, sailors and poets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t12:o1:1
# text = yeah, sailors and poets
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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yeah, thieves and traders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t12:o2:1
# text = yeah, thieves and traders
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yeah, thieves and traders and also shepherds, kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t12:o3:1
# text = yeah, thieves and traders and also shepherds, kinda
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah, he was the patron of wine and feasts and dancing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t12:o4:1
# text = nah, he was the patron of wine and feasts and dancing
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | the patron |  |  |  | of wine and feasts and dancing | tree rules |

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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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