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title: Wicked, what happened to the corn while Art was gone? — Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what happened to the corn while Art was gone? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

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Wicked, what happened to the corn while Art was gone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, go · **To what, where:** Art

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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/1063-pg2892-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t4:1
# text = Wicked, what happened to the corn while Art was gone?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the corn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · passive |  | Art |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 {#o1}

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It got eaten by the wild birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = It got eaten by the wild birds
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · passive | the wild birds | It |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fields stood bare, and the crop was taken by the Fomorians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = The fields stood bare, and the crop was taken by the Fomorians
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fomorians	Fomorian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the fields |  |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive | the Fomorians | the crop |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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

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It vanished, there was none at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = It vanished, there was none at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | It | none |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It vanished from every field across Tara and the whole land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = It vanished from every field across Tara and the whole land
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | It |  |  | every field |  | across Tara and the whole land | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from field=Initial\_Location |

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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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