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title: bruv what even was the hole, it just kept getting bigger lol — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv what even was the hole, it just kept getting bigger lol Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

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bruv what even was the hole, it just kept getting bigger lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv · **What happens:** be, keep, get · **To what, where:** hole

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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/2069-pg976-part28/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t2:1
# text = bruv what even was the hole, it just kept getting bigger lol
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the hole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | bruv |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | bruv *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 closed up again slowly after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t2:o1:1
# text = it closed up again slowly after
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close up** | past | it |  |  |  | again | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it spread wider and deeper with no bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t2:o2:1
# text = it spread wider and deeper with no bottom
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wider	wide	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with no bottom; wide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it stayed the same size and shallow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t2:o3:1
# text = it stayed the same size and shallow
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | it | the same size |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it kept growing until the whole field was a pit of black smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t2:o4:1
# text = it kept growing until the whole field was a pit of black smoke
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | until the whole field |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | growing | a pit |  |  |  | of black smoke | 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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