Test 11 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

Ceres literally said the queen would regret it if she messed with the baby's care

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ceres, queen, baby · What happens: say, regret, mess, care · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» 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	Ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
2	literally	literally	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regret	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 regret	aux
7	regret	regret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 regret	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 messed	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 messed	nsubj
11	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 regret	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 care	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 care	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 baby	case
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 messed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ceres		literally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	regret	would	the queen	it		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	mess a condition, not said to happen	past	queen		with the baby's care	tree rules
4	care		the baby			nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

the child would pay for his mother's error

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 error	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 error	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	the child					for child's mother's error	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for error=Theme
2	err		child's mother						nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the baby would suffer for his mother's folly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	aux
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 folly	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 folly	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	would	the baby					for baby's mother's folly	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

the baby would suffer for his mother's folly and she would be cursed forever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	aux
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 folly	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 folly	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cursed	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cursed	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cursed	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cursed	aux:pass
14	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 suffer	conj
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 cursed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	would	the baby					for baby's mother's folly	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	curse	would · passive		she				forever property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

the queen would suffer for her pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	aux
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pride	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pride	nmod:poss
7	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	would	the queen					for queen's pride	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pride		queen						nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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