Test 10 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…

was he a total rogue from the start or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: total rogue, start

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 518 «Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes steals oxen and turns a greedy shepherd to stone» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rogue	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rogue	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rogue	det
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rogue	amod
5	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rogue	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 start	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rogue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a total rogue		the start			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

only after he had been sent off to Olympus to serve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 sent	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sent	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Olympus	case
9	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 serve	mark
11	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · perfect · passive		he	Olympus				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to olympus=Destination
2	serve	to-infinitive							vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

from his cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 cradle	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cradle	nmod:poss
3	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

not until he was grown up and wandering the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 grown	advmod
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 grown	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grown	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux:pass
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wandering	cc
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grown	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow up	past · passive		he					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund		the hills					tree rules

Option 4

from his youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 youth	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youth	nmod:poss
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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