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title: why'd Odysseus run back to his ship, like scared? — Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visi… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd Odysseus run back to his ship, like scared? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 11 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

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why'd Odysseus run back to his ship, like scared?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Odysseus · **What happens:** run back · **To what, where:** ship

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» 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/559-pg22381-part65/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t11:1
# text = why'd Odysseus run back to his ship, like scared?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | infinitive | Odysseus |  |  | Odysseus's ship |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination |

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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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Achilles cursed him, scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t11:o1:1
# text = Achilles cursed him, scary
1	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past | Achilles | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ajax attacked him, scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t11:o2:1
# text = Ajax attacked him, scary
1	Ajax	Ajax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | Ajax | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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

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loads of shades crowded him, scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t11:o3:1
# text = loads of shades crowded him, scary
1	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | past | loads of shades |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Circe called him, scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:559-pg22381-part65:t11:o4:1
# text = Circe called him, scary
1	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Circe |  | him *= he* |  |  | scary *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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