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title: Lol, so Proserpina chucked the gems across the room, right? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, so Proserpina chucked the gems across the room, right? Test 8 · ★ 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 quest
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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Lol, so Proserpina chucked the gems across the room, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proserpina · **What happens:** chuck · **To what, where:** gems, room

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t8:1
# text = Lol, so Proserpina chucked the gems across the room, right?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | Proserpina | the gems |  | the room |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=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, she flung them all the way to the far end of the hall and then sulked by the door

<!-- fold The tree, 20 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, she flung them all the way to the far end of the hall and then sulked by the door
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	sulked	sulk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  | to the far end of the hall | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to end=Destination |
| 2 | **sulk** | participle | she *not said here* |  |  |  | then | by the door | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she tossed them to the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she tossed them to the back
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past | she | them *= they* | the back |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to back=Recipient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she flung them to the far end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, she flung them to the far end
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  | to the far end |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to end=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she picked them up and looked at them real close before dropping them on the floor

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = Nah, she picked them up and looked at them real close before dropping them on the floor
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	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  |  | close *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | past | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at them *= they*; real *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | gerund | she *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the floor |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on floor=Destination |

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