Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

ok so where did the king say his home was, like

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, home · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		where property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	king's home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

a golden palace under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 palace	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 palace	amod
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a crystal palace under the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 palace	det
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 palace	amod
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a stone castle by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 castle	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	compound
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

under a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 hill	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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