Test 5 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

fr that dog with three heads is actually terrifying

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terrifying	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 heads	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heads	nummod
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fr	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 terrifying	cop
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 terrifying	advmod
9	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fr with three heads and that dog					actually, terrifying 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

Cerberus watches Pluto's front door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 door	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Pluto	case
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Cerberus	Pluto's front door					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cerberus guards the gates of Pluto's kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gates	det
4	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guards	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kingdom	case
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kingdom	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Pluto	case
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gates	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	Cerberus	the gates of Pluto's kingdom					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

Option 3

Hydra guards the gates of Pluto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hydra	Hydra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gates	det
4	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guards	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Pluto	case
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gates	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	Hydra	the gates of Pluto					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

Option 4

Cerberus guards the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	Cerberus	the gate					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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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