Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

no cap, why did Ceres ditch her fields half done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ceres · What happens: ditch, do · To what, where: fields

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ditch	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ditch	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ditch	aux
6	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ditch	nsubj
7	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fields	nmod:poss
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ditch	obj
10	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 done	advmod
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ditch	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past · do-support	Ceres	Ceres's fields					tree rules
2	do	participle	Ceres not said here					half property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

the sun was going down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · progressive	the sun					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

she heard a shriek from the valley and rushed off without finishing

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shriek	det
4	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 valley	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 valley	det
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rushed	cc
9	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 rushed	compound:prt
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 finishing	mark
12	finishing	finish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rushed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	she	a shriek	the valley	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic from valley=Source
2	rush off	past	she not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	finish	gerund	she not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she heard a scream and got worried

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scream	det
4	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	a scream					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scream=Stimulus
2	get	past	she not said here					worried property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

someone told her a rumor about her daughter and she panicked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rumor	det
5	rumor	rumor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 daughter	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rumor	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 panicked	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 panicked	nsubj
11	panicked	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	someone	a rumor	her = she			about her daughter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rumor=Topic
2	panic	past	she						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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