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title: bruh, what even did the shepherd Battus turn into? — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what even did the shepherd Battus turn into? Test 2 · ★ 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 opti
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# Test 2 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

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bruh, what even did the shepherd Battus turn into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Battus · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** shepherd

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t2:1
# text = bruh, what even did the shepherd Battus turn into?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Battus	Battus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | Battus | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shepherd=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a lump of touchstone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t2:o1:1
# text = a lump of touchstone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a big lump of marble that stayed in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t2:o2:1
# text = a big lump of marble that stayed in the field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | a big lump of marble |  |  | the field |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tree stump that the gods rolled into the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t2:o3:1
# text = a tree stump that the gods rolled into the river
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the gods | a tree stump |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into river=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a column of marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t2:o4:1
# text = a column of marble
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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