Test 4 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

ngl Hecate is so extra, she wants Ceres to just chill in a cave

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, Ceres · What happens: be, want, chill · To what, where: Ceres, cave

This is test 4 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 extra	nsubj
2	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extra	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 extra	advmod
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extra	parataxis
9	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 wants	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 chill	mark
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 chill	advmod
12	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wants	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	ngl			extra property	tree rules
2	want	present	ngl	Ceres			tree rules
3	chill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here		a cave		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

she wants her to go home now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she	her = she					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she told her to come hang out in the cavern forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 hang	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cavern	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cavern	det
10	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hang	obl
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 hang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here				tree rules
3	hang out	infinitive	she not said here		the cavern	forever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cavern=Location

Option 3

she told her to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she said come chill in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	infinitive		chill		the cave			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chill=Theme

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