Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins ba…

why did ceres need to hurry, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ceres · What happens: do, need, hurry · To what, where: fr

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	advcl
3	ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hurry	mark
6	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurry	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	need	present	ceres		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hurry not said to happen	to-infinitive	ceres not said here	fr	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fr=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the grain was sour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sour	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sour	cop
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grain					sour property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the harvest was late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 harvest	det
2	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the harvest					late property	tree rules

Option 3

it was winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 winter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 winter	cop
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	winter					tree rules

Option 4

the wheat in the north had all rotted away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wheat	det
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rotted	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wheat	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rotted	aux
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 rotted	advmod
8	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 rotted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	past · perfect · passive		the wheat in the north				all, away property	tree rules

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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