Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

the king geezer with the crown was proper sus, right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king geezer · What happens: be · To what, where: proper sus

This is test 4 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 geezer	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 geezer	compound
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sus	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 crown	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crown	det
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 geezer	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sus	amod
9	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	9 sus	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the king geezer with the crown	proper sus					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

he was grumpy and kept waving at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	cop
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	conj
6	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	grumpy property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he not said here		tree rules
3	wave	gerund	he not said here	at her = she	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he was sulky and kept shading his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulky	cop
3	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulky	conj
6	shading	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		sulky property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he not said here			tree rules
3	shade	gerund	he not said here	his eyes		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary

Option 3

he was angry and shouted and waved his crown at everyone in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shouted	cc
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waved	cc
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crown	nmod:poss
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 everyone	case
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 waved	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			angry property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	he not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wave	past	he not said here	his crown	everyone	in the field	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Patient in field=Theme
4	crown		his = he				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

he was sulky and kept rubbing his eyes and shading his face from the sun

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulky	cop
3	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulky	conj
6	rubbing	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shading	cc
10	shading	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rubbing	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shading	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		sulky property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he not said here			tree rules
3	rub	gerund	he not said here	his eyes		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	shade	gerund	he not said here	his face	from the sun	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary from sun=Theme

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