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title: What did Hermes give Odysseus to save himself? — Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Ody… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Hermes give Odysseus to save himself? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 558 «Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, escapes the winds and the Laestrygones, and meets Circe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphe…

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What did Hermes give Odysseus to save himself?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hermes · **What happens:** give, save · **To what, where:** Odysseus

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 558 «Greek Myths, The Odyssey, part 64: Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, escapes the winds and the Laestrygones, and meets Circe» 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/558-pg22381-part64/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t14:1
# text = What did Hermes give Odysseus to save himself?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | Hermes |  | Odysseus |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Hermes *not said here* | Odysseus |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 {#o1}

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a magic bronze sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t14:o1:1
# text = a magic bronze sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a potion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t14:o2:1
# text = a potion
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potion	potion	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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a root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t14:o3:1
# text = a root
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a herb called Moly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:558-pg22381-part64:t14:o4:1
# text = a herb called Moly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	Moly	Moly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | a herb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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