Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

bruh, what was weird about that torch?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 weird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 weird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weird	cop
5	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 torch	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 torch	det
8	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weird	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						about that torch; weird property	tree rules

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

it was very bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bright	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bright	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bright property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it burned with a silver flame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 flame	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flame	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flame	compound
6	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	it					with a silver flame	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flame=Theme

Option 3

it flickered but never went dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flickered	nsubj
2	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flickered	conj
6	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flicker	past	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go	past						dim property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it stayed lit through rain and wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj:pass
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wind	cc
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		it		rain and wind			tree rules

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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