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# Test 7 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

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Ceres looked so old and messy, like nobody would've guessed she was the seed goddess

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ceres, nobody · **What happens:** look, guess, be · **To what, where:** seed goddess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» 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/2073-pg976-part32/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t7:1
# text = Ceres looked so old and messy, like nobody would've guessed she was the seed goddess
1	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Ceres |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **guess** | would · perfect | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ceres | the seed goddess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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people thought she was a lost old farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t7:o1:1
# text = people thought she was a lost old farmer
1	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | she | a lost old farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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people thought she was a crazy wanderer with messy hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t7:o2:1
# text = people thought she was a crazy wanderer with messy hair
1	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | she | a crazy wanderer |  |  |  | with messy hair | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
people thought she was a mad drifter with tangled hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t7:o3:1
# text = people thought she was a mad drifter with tangled hair
1	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	drifter	drifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | she | a mad drifter |  |  |  | with tangled hair | tree rules |
| 3 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
people thought she was crazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t7:o4:1
# text = people thought she was crazy
1	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | crazy *property* | tree rules |

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