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title: why did ceres need to hurry, fr? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did ceres need to hurry, fr? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins ba…

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why did ceres need to hurry, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ceres · **What happens:** do, need, hurry · **To what, where:** fr

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» 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/2068-pg976-part27/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t6:1
# text = why did ceres need to hurry, fr?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
3	ceres	cere	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | ceres |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hurry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ceres *not said here* | fr |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fr=Agent |

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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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the grain was sour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t6:o1:1
# text = the grain was sour
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the grain |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the harvest was late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t6:o2:1
# text = the harvest was late
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the harvest |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t6:o3:1
# text = it was winter
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wheat in the north had all rotted away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2068-pg976-part27:t6:o4:1
# text = the wheat in the north had all rotted away
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	rotted	rot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wheat in the north |  |  |  | all, away *property* | tree rules |

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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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