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title: aphrodite gave psyche impossible tasks, right? — Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche o… · tree and pragmatics
description: aphrodite gave psyche impossible tasks, right? Test 8 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Ero…

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aphrodite gave psyche impossible tasks, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** aphrodite · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** psyche impossible tasks

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t8:1
# text = aphrodite gave psyche impossible tasks, right?
1	aphrodite	aphrodite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	psyche	psyche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | aphrodite | psyche impossible tasks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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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yeah, but eros had her back, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = yeah, but eros had her back, mate
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	eros	eros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have back** | past | eros | her *= she* |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah, mate
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nah, she gave up, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = nah, she gave up, mate
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | she |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yeah, and she had to do them all alone but she still ended up winning, mate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = yeah, and she had to do them all alone but she still ended up winning, mate
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **end up** | past | she |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** | gerund | she *not said here* | mate |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality |

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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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