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title: did Hermes sneak off in boots or what? — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: did Hermes sneak off in boots or what? Test 6 · ★ 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 c
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# Test 6 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

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did Hermes sneak off in boots or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hermes · **What happens:** sneak off · **To what, where:** boots

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t6:1
# text = did Hermes sneak off in boots or what?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sneak	sneak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak off** | past · do-support | Hermes |  |  | boots |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boot=Trajectory |

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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 {#o1}

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winged leather shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t6:o1:1
# text = winged leather shoes
1	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wing** | past |  | leather shoes |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme shoe=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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myrtle twig sandals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t6:o2:1
# text = myrtle twig sandals
1	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the boots of a traveller with silver buckles and wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t6:o3:1
# text = the boots of a traveller with silver buckles and wings
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	buckles	buckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sandals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t6:o4:1
# text = sandals
1	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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