Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

what did the flowers do when she turned round, was it spooky

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flowers, she · What happens: do, turn round, be · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 turned	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	acl:relcl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	parataxis
13	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	do	present	the flowers			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn round	past	she		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		it		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

they seemed to bloom before her eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bloom	mark
4	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bloom	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	they						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	bloom	to-infinitive	they not said here			her eyes			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they seemed to pop up before her eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pop	mark
4	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pop	compound:prt
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	they						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	pop up	to-infinitive	they not said here			her eyes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location

Option 3

they seemed to sprout up all around her and blocked the path back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sprout	mark
4	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sprout	compound:prt
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 her	advmod
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprout	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blocked	cc
10	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blocked	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	10 blocked	advmod
14	home	home	ADV	_	10 blocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	they			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	sprout up	to-infinitive	they not said here		around her = she	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location
3	block back	past	they not said here	the path	home property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Theme

Option 4

they sprang up in front of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	they			front of her			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location

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