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title: how did eros stop being a tiny shrimp? — Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche o… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did eros stop being a tiny shrimp? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Ero…

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how did eros stop being a tiny shrimp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eros · **What happens:** stop, be · **To what, where:** tiny shrimp

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» 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/525-pg22381-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t4:1
# text = how did eros stop being a tiny shrimp?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	eros	ero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past · do-support | eros |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | eros *not said here* | a tiny shrimp |  |  |  |  | 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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his dad fed him nectar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = his dad fed him nectar
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | his dad | nectar | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nectar=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he ate his veggies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = he ate his veggies
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	veggies	veggy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | he | his veggies |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veggy=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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his bro anteros hung out with him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = his bro anteros hung out with him
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	anteros	antero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang out** | participle · passive |  | his bro anteros |  |  |  | with him *= he* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with he=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his mom gave him a magic potion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = his mom gave him a magic potion
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | his mom | a magic potion | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient potion=Theme |

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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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