--- title: bro, how old was Hermes when he started the stealing? — Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, how old was Hermes when he started the stealing? Test 9 · ★ 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/518-pg22381-part24/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/518-pg22381-part24/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste… bro, how old was Hermes when he started the stealing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** old Hermes, stealing This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t9:1 # text = bro, how old was Hermes when he started the stealing? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Hermes Hermes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stealing stealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | old Hermes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | past | bro | the stealing | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stealing=Eventuality | 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} only a year old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t9:o1:1 # text = only a year old 1 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} not even hours old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t9:o2:1 # text = not even hours old 1 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} about three days old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t9:o3:1 # text = about three days old 1 about about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} still a baby in his cradle, a few weeks old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:518-pg22381-part24:t9:o4:1 # text = still a baby in his cradle, a few weeks old 1 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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