Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

did she scream for her mum or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: scream

This is test 5 · ★ 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 scream	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scream	nsubj
3	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 mum	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scream	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 scream	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 scream	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past · do-support	she					for her mum	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mum=Recipient

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

she shouted for her father

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 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	she					for her father	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for father=Recipient

Option 2

she screamed and screamed for her mother Ceres to come

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 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 screamed	cc
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 screamed	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 screamed	obl
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 screamed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scream speech: express	past	she not said here	for her mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mother=Recipient
3	come	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she called her mum

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she		her mum				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she screamed for Mother Ceres

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 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 Ceres	case
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ceres	compound
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 screamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she					for Mother Ceres	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for ceres=Recipient

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