Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

fr, what was the flower she found, bro?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, she · What happens: be, find · To what, where: flower

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 flower	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr and the flower and bro	the flower					tree rules
2	find	past	she	the flower not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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

one of the strange glowing blossoms that had fallen from the enchanted shrub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 blossoms	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blossoms	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blossoms	amod
5	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 blossoms	amod
6	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 one	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fallen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fallen	aux
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 blossoms	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 shrub	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shrub	det
12	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 shrub	amod
13	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	glow	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past · perfect	the strange glowing blossoms	the enchanted shrub	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shrub=Initial_Location
3	enchant	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

a crushed rose from the garden hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rose	det
2	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rose	amod
3	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 hedge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hedge	compound
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

one of the magnificent flowers from the shrub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 one	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shrub	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shrub	det
8	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a magnificent flower the nymphs had dropped while fleeing from the bright shrub nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flower	det
2	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flower	amod
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nymphs	det
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	aux
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 fleeing	mark
9	fleeing	flee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dropped	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 shrub	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shrub	det
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shrub	amod
13	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fleeing	obl
14	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	9 fleeing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect · passive		a magnificent flower					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	flee	gerund				the bright shrub		nearby property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shrub=Initial_Location

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