Test 9 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 29: Pluto carries…

wait, why won't Proserpina eat the food?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Proserpina · What happens: wait, not eat · To what, where: food

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eat	advmod
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not eat	future	Proserpina	the food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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

She thinks it's a trap, and she's not hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trap	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trap	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hungry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hungry	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hungry	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hungry	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hungry	advmod
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a trap		tree rules
3	not is	present	she		hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because the food looks dodgy and she's kinda scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 looks	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scared	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scared	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	cop
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	10 scared	advmod
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the food					dodgy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	she					kinda, scared property	tree rules

Option 3

She's full already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 full	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	already	already	ADV	_	3 full	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Because if she eats there, she's stuck forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 eats	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 eats	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 eats	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	cop
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	she			there			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					forever, stuck property	tree rules

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