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title: Mate, did Heracles really ride a bull all the way across the sea, in… — Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did Heracles really ride a bull all the way across the sea, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 1 · ★ · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…

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Mate, did Heracles really ride a bull all the way across the sea, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, ride, innit · **To what, where:** Heracles, bull, sea

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» 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/543-pg22381-part49/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:t1:1
# text = Mate, did Heracles really ride a bull all the way across the sea, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | Heracles |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heracles=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | present | Mate *not said here* | a bull |  | the sea |  | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bull=Theme across sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | Mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, right across the sea to the Peloponnesus, proper, bruv, every mile of it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, right across the sea to the Peloponnesus, proper, bruv, every mile of it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Peloponnesus	Peloponnesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he swam beside it, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, he swam beside it, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	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 | **swim** | past | he |  |  | it |  | mate *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, right to the Peloponnesus, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, right to the Peloponnesus, proper
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Peloponnesus	Peloponnesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, all the way to Greece, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:543-pg22381-part49:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah, all the way to Greece, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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

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