Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

bruv what even was the hole, it just kept getting bigger lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: be, keep, get · To what, where: hole

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	6 hole	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hole	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
11	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 getting	xcomp
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 what	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hole		tree rules
2	keep	past	bruv			tree rules
3	get	gerund	bruv not said here		big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

it closed up again slowly after

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	2 closed	nsubj
2	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 closed	compound:prt
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 closed	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 closed	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	2 closed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close up	past	it				again	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it spread wider and deeper with no bottom

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	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wider	wide	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 spread	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 deeper	cc
5	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 spread	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	it					with no bottom; wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it stayed the same size and shallow

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	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 size	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 size	amod
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shallow	cc
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 size	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it	the same size					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location

Option 4

it kept growing until the whole field was a pit of black smoke

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 pit	csubj
4	until	until	ADP	_	7 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growing	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pit	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pit	det
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 smoke	case
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smoke	amod
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund			until the whole field		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	growing	a pit		of black smoke	tree rules

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