Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

wait, what did Ceres grab before she went looking at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Ceres · What happens: wait, grab, go, look

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grab	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 grab	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grab	aux
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grab	nsubj
6	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grab	advcl
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 went	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	past · do-support	Ceres		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	go	past	Ceres		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	gerund	Ceres not said here	night	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 right answer

a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 torch	det
2	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shield	det
2	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a lantern wrapped in linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lantern	det
2	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lantern	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 linen	case
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a lantern not said here		linen			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in linen=Destination

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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