Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

did the naiad say yes or no, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: naiad · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 naiad	det
3	naiad	naiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 no	cc
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 yes	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yes	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the naiad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

she said no in a murmur

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 said	ccomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 murmur	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 murmur	det
6	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			a murmur			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in murmur=Manner

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she replied with a sleepy shake of the head and a sigh

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 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 shake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shake	det
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shake	amod
6	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 replied	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sigh	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sigh	det
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	she					with a sleepy shake of the head and a sigh	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with shake=Eventuality

Option 3

she shook her head

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 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	she	her head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 4

she said nothing

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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