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title: so what made the flowers pop up everywhere? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what made the flowers pop up everywhere? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

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so what made the flowers pop up everywhere?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** flowers · **What happens:** make, pop up

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t6:1
# text = so what made the flowers pop up everywhere?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pop	pop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pop up** | present | the flowers |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the spring rain falling down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t6:o1:1
# text = the spring rain falling down
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | gerund | the spring rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Proserpina stepping on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t6:o2:1
# text = Proserpina stepping on the ground
1	Proserpina	proserpina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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her feet touching the earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t6:o3:1
# text = her feet touching the earth
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | gerund | her feet | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pluto's magic spreading across the whole upper world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t6:o4:1
# text = Pluto's magic spreading across the whole upper world
1	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | gerund | Pluto's magic *not said here* |  |  | the whole upper world |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across world=Destination |

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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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