Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

how mad were the horses, black and smoking, wild

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: mad horses

This is test 3 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 black	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 black	punct
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smoking	cc
9	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 black	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wild	punct
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mad horses					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

four black horses pulled a golden chariot out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chariot	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chariot	amod
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	4 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	four black horses	a golden chariot				out property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme

Option 2

two grey horses dragged a silver cart out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cart	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cart	compound
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 dragged	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag out	past	two grey horses	a silver cart					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 3

three white horses jumped out of the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 ground	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	past	three white horses	the ground					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory

Option 4

four black horses pulled a golden chariot out of the hole in the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chariot	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chariot	amod
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hole	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hole	det
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	four black horses	a golden chariot		the hole in the earth			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme out hole=Initial_Location

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