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title: Proper sus that Proserpina ain't eaten in six months, right? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper sus that Proserpina ain't eaten in six months, right? Test 5 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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Proper sus that Proserpina ain't eaten in six months, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not eat · **To what, where:** Proserpina

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t5:1
# text = Proper sus that Proserpina ain't eaten in six months, right?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · passive |  | Proserpina |  |  | month |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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Nope, she snacked on sweets a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t5:o1:1
# text = Nope, she snacked on sweets a lot
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	snacked	snack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snack** | past | she | a lot |  |  |  | on sweets | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sweet=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, not a single bite, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, not a single bite, no cap
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, no food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, no food
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Nah, she ate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, she ate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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