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title: yo why'd the Sun and Moon ghost everyone? — Myths and Legends of China, The Empres… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo why'd the Sun and Moon ghost everyone? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yo why'd the Sun and Moon ghost everyone?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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/1387-pg4018-part47/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t1:1
# text = yo why'd the Sun and Moon ghost everyone?
1	yo	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mount Shu blew up and trashed the sky roads so badly that nobody could travel

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t1:o1:1
# text = Mount Shu blew up and trashed the sky roads so badly that nobody could travel
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Shu	Shu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trashed	trash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | Mount |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **trash** | past | Mount *not said here* | the sky roads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mount Shu's fire wrecked the old garden path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t1:o2:1
# text = Mount Shu's fire wrecked the old garden path
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Shu	Shu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | past | Mount's fire | the old garden path |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 2 | **fire** |  | Mount |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mount Shu blew up and trashed the sky roads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t1:o3:1
# text = Mount Shu blew up and trashed the sky roads
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Shu	Shu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trashed	trash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | Mount |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **trash** | past | Mount *not said here* | the sky roads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mount Shu blew up and the Empress's sky roads were trashed all the way to the sea

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t1:o4:1
# text = Mount Shu blew up and the Empress's sky roads were trashed all the way to the sea
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Shu	Shu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	trashed	trash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | Mount |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **trash** | past · passive |  | the Empress's sky roads |  |  |  | to the sea; all way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |

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