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title: mate that grove was so dark, the moon couldn't even get in — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate that grove was so dark, the moon couldn't even get in Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

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mate that grove was so dark, the moon couldn't even get in

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, moon · **What happens:** be, not get in

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» 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/2084-pg976-part43/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t12:1
# text = mate that grove was so dark, the moon couldn't even get in
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	det	_	_
3	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | mate and that grove |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get in** | could | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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yeah, it was sunny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t12:o1:1
# text = yeah, it was sunny
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sunny	sunny	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 | it |  |  |  |  | sunny *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, the oaks were way too thick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t12:o2:1
# text = fr, the oaks were way too thick
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the oaks | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the trees were super dense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t12:o3:1
# text = yeah, the trees were super dense
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	super	super	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dense	dense	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 | the trees |  |  |  |  | dense, super *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it was bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t12:o4:1
# text = nah, it was bright
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bright	bright	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 | it |  |  |  |  | bright *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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