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title: So is the little prince gonna live forever now or what? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: So is the little prince gonna live forever now or what? Test 4 · ★ 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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So is the little prince gonna live forever now or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little prince · **What happens:** be, live

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t4:1
# text = So is the little prince gonna live forever now or what?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | infinitive | the little prince |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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}

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Yeah, he's immortal now, sorted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he's immortal now, sorted
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  | now | immortal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, forever
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nope, he's gonna die like everyone else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t4:o3:1
# text = Nope, he's gonna die like everyone else
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | like everyone; die *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Yeah, he's gonna live loads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he's gonna live loads
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
6	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | he | gonna live loads |  |  |  |  | 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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