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title: ngl, what was Ceres holding? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what was Ceres holding? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's choic
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

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ngl, what was Ceres holding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** Ceres

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t9:1
# text = ngl, what was Ceres holding?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ngl and Ceres *not said here* | Ceres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | ngl and Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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 {#o1}

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a golden sheaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t9:o1:1
# text = a golden sheaf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a basket of seeds and a flaming torch from home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t9:o2:1
# text = a basket of seeds and a flaming torch from home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bunch of wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t9:o3:1
# text = a bunch of wheat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a burning torch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:t9:o4:1
# text = a burning torch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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