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title: ngl the second earthquake sounds nuts, what happened? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl the second earthquake sounds nuts, what happened? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl the second earthquake sounds nuts, what happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl, nuts · **What happens:** sound, happen · **To what, where:** nuts

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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/1490-pg503-part77/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t6:1
# text = ngl the second earthquake sounds nuts, what happened?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | ngl | nuts |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past | nuts |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the hay flew everywhere round him and the whole barn shook hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t6:o1:1
# text = the hay flew everywhere round him and the whole barn shook hard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the hay |  |  |  |  | round him *= he*; everywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the whole barn |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the hay flew everywhere round him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t6:o2:1
# text = the hay flew everywhere round him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the hay |  |  |  |  | round him *= he*; everywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it scattered hay all over the place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t6:o3:1
# text = it scattered hay all over the place
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | past | it | hay |  | the place |  | all *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hay=Theme over place=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the straw flew all round him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t6:o4:1
# text = the straw flew all round him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the straw |  |  |  |  | round him *= he*; all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory |

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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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