Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

lowkey, did the sea nymphs take Proserpina under the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, sea nymphs · What happens: do, take · To what, where: Proserpina, sea

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nymphs	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nymphs	compound
6	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey						tree rules
2	take	present	the sea nymphs		Proserpina	the sea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument proserpina=Destination

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

no, she stayed on the sand and went back to her mother later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sand	det
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			the sand		late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location
2	go back	past	she not said here					to her mother result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no, she left them to pick flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	pick	to-infinitive	she not said here	flowers					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes, they took her to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	her = she		the sea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 4

yes, they dragged her down under the waves to their caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 dragged	compound:prt
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 waves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 waves	det
9	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 caves	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 caves	nmod:poss
12	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag down	past	they	her = she		the waves		to waves's caves	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to cave=Destination

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