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title: real talk, did Pluto want her to be happy? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, did Pluto want her to be happy? Test 12 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

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real talk, did Pluto want her to be happy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pluto, her · **What happens:** want, be · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t12:1
# text = real talk, did Pluto want her to be happy?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Pluto | her *= she* |  |  |  | real talk *vocative* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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nah he didn't care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t12:o1:1
# text = nah he didn't care
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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yeah he kinda did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t12:o2:1
# text = yeah he kinda did
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	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 | **do** | past | he |  |  |  |  | kinda *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t12:o3:1
# text = not really
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t12:o4:1
# text = no
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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