Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

did the palace servants roll out the red carpet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace servants · What happens: roll out · To what, where: red carpet

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 servants	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servants	compound
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roll	nsubj
5	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 roll	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carpet	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carpet	amod
9	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roll	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll out	present	the palace servants	the red carpet					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=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

no, they mocked her and locked the gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 mocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mocked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocked	nsubj
4	mocked	mock	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 mocked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 locked	cc
7	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mocked	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gates	det
9	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	they	her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	lock	past	they not said here	the gates					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

no, they shut out the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut out	present	they	the crowd					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crowd=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, they got rude and threatened dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dogs	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threatened	cc
7	threatened	threatened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rude	conj
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they	rude dogs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

Option 4

no, they sneered and shooed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sneered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sneered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneered	nsubj
4	sneered	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shooed	cc
6	shooed	shoo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sneered	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shooed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneer	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shoo	past	they not said here	her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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