Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

so what did the fisherman spot on the sand, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: fisherman spot, sand

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
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 spot	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spot	compound
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sand	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fisherman spot		the sand and fam			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Eventuality

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

a golden comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comb	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

her little footprints

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 footprints	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 footprints	amod
3	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

a lost sandal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sandal	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sandal	amod
3	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a broken wooden oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 oar	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 oar	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oar	amod
4	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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