Test 11 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 29: Pluto carries…

so Pluto's palace is basically a dark, boring place?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace · What happens: be · To what, where: dark boring place

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2070 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 29: Pluto carries Proserpina to his gloomy palace» 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	so	so	ADV	_	11 place	advmod
2	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 palace	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Pluto	case
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 place	cop
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	11 place	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct
10	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pluto's palace	a dark boring place				basically 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

Nah, it's bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bright	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					bright property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Basically, it's gloomy, even with all the shine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Basically	basically	ADV	_	5 gloomy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Basically	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gloomy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	cop
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shine	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 shine	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 shine	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 shine	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shine	det
11	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gloomy	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					basically, gloomy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Kinda, it's gloomy but a bit fun, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 gloomy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gloomy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	cop
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fun	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fun	obl:unmarked
9	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gloomy	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lowkey	punct
11	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gloomy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					gloomy, kinda property	tree rules
2	be			a bit					tree rules

Option 4

Basically, it's cozy and warm inside, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Basically	basically	ADV	_	5 cozy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Basically	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cozy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cozy	cop
5	cozy	cozy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 warm	cc
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cozy	conj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 cozy	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cozy	punct
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 cozy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					basically, cozy, honestly, inside property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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