Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

so what's a hamadryad, is it like a tree spirit?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2071 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres searches all night for her lost daughter» 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	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hamadryad	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hamadryad	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hamadryad	det
5	hamadryad	hamadryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spirit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hamadryad	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spirit	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spirit	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 spirit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spirit	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spirit	compound
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 spirit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a hamadryad					tree rules
2	is	present	hamadryad					like a tree spirit	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

a nymph of the fields who tends the golden wheat and plows the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nymph	det
2	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nymph	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tends	nsubj
7	tends	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 nymph	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wheat	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wheat	amod
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tends	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plows	cc
12	plows	plow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tends	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soil	det
14	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	present	a nymph of the fields	the golden wheat					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme
2	plow	present	a nymph of the fields not said here	the soil					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent soil=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a maiden living inside an oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 living	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 living	amod
3	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 oak	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 oak	det
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 living	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a spirit who guards a sacred spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spirit	det
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 guards	nsubj
4	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spirit	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spring	det
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	a spirit				spring		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a sea-maiden who swims below the waves and rides on dolphins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maiden	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sea	punct
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swims	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 swims	nsubj
6	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	below	below	ADP	_	9 waves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 waves	det
9	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swims	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rides	cc
11	rides	ride	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waves	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 dolphins	case
13	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	a sea maiden			the waves and rides		on dolphins	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below wave=Trajectory

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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