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title: Innit wild that Ceres made the whole earth go dead? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit wild that Ceres made the whole earth go dead? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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Innit wild that Ceres made the whole earth go dead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ceres, whole earth · **What happens:** make, go · **To what, where:** whole earth

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» 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/2074-pg976-part33/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t3:1
# text = Innit wild that Ceres made the whole earth go dead?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Ceres | the whole earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the whole earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the crops all died off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the crops all died off
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die off** | past | the crops |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, no grass, no flowers, no crops, and the farmers were starving to death everywhere

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, no grass, no flowers, no crops, and the farmers were starving to death everywhere
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past · progressive | the farmers | no grass and no flowers and no crops *not said here* |  |  |  | to death; everywhere *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the whole world went gray and quiet, with no birds or rivers or anything alive

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the whole world went gray and quiet, with no birds or rivers or anything alive
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	_
18	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the whole world |  |  |  |  | with no birds or rivers; alive, gray *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bird=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, no grass, no flowers, nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, no grass, no flowers, nothing
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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