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title: why did Proserpina cry on the way out? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did Proserpina cry on the way out? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

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why did Proserpina cry on the way out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proserpina · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» 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/2075-pg976-part34/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t11:1
# text = why did Proserpina cry on the way out?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · do-support | Proserpina |  |  | the way |  | out *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location |

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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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she was tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t11:o1:1
# text = she was tired
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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

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she felt bad for Pluto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t11:o2:1
# text = she felt bad for Pluto
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | she |  |  |  |  | for Pluto; bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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she missed her mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t11:o3:1
# text = she missed her mother
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | she | her mother |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she was scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t11:o4:1
# text = she was scared
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | 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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