Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…
what did the king promise, was it sweets or summink
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: promise · What happens: do, be · To what, where: king promise, sweets
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sweets | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sweets | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sweets | nsubj |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | parataxis |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 summink | cc |
| 11 | summink | summink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sweets | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king promise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | promise | sweets or summink | 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
a box of gold and silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 box | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 coins | cc |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coins | compound |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 box | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a garden of emeralds and gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 emeralds | case |
| 4 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 garden | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 coins | cc |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coins | compound |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emeralds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a garden of pearls, diamonds and rubies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pearls | case |
| 4 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 garden | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 diamonds | punct |
| 6 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pearls | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rubies | cc |
| 8 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pearls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a palace full of silver and jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 palace | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 silver | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jewels | cc |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 silver | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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