Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

wait so did her mum hear her, be honest

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: wait, do, hear, be · To what, where: her

This is test 6 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 honest	cop
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here			tree rules
3	hear	past	her mum	her = she		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	is	infinitive	you not said here		honest 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

yes, she heard the cries but could not get there in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cries	det
6	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 get	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	the cries					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	not get	could	she not said here			there	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

no, the nymphs were too busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nymphs	det
4	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 busy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 busy	advmod
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nymphs					busy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes, but Ceres was too far off to come in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 off	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 off	cc
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 off	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 off	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 off	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ceres					far, off property	tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, Ceres was too far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 away	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 away	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 away	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ceres					away, far property	tree rules

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