Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

did she lose her flowers or keep them, be real

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: lose, keep, be · To what, where: flowers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flowers	nmod:poss
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 real	cop
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	she	her flowers		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality
2	keep	infinitive	she not said here	flowers = flower		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	infinitive	she not said here		real property	tree rules

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

she dropped them all along the way back to the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
8	back	back	ADV	_	2 dropped	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	them = they		the way		to the field	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme along way=Destination to field=Initial_Location

Option 2

she gave them to the nymphs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 nymphs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nymphs	det
6	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she		them = they			to the nymphs	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to nymph=Recipient

Option 3

she scattered every one of them on the road as she was carried off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scattered	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	she	every one of them		the road			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme on road=Destination
2	carry off	past · passive		she					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she dropped them along the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	them = they		the way			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme along way=Destination

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