Test 7 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

Ceres looked so old and messy, like nobody would've guessed she was the seed goddess

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ceres, nobody · What happens: look, guess, be · To what, where: seed goddess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 messy	cc
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guessed	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 guessed	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 guessed	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 guessed	aux
11	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 guessed	aux
12	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 looked	parataxis
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 goddess	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 goddess	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goddess	det
16	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goddess	compound
17	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guessed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Ceres		old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	guess	would · perfect	nobody			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Ceres	the seed goddess		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 · ← Mova's choice

people thought she was a lost old farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 farmer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 farmer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 farmer	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farmer	amod
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	she	a lost old farmer	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

people thought she was a crazy wanderer with messy hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanderer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanderer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wanderer	det
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wanderer	amod
7	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanderer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a crazy wanderer				with messy hair	tree rules

Option 3

people thought she was a mad drifter with tangled hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drifter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drifter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drifter	det
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drifter	amod
7	drifter	drifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a mad drifter	with tangled hair	tree rules
3	tangle	participle				tree rules

Option 4

people thought she was crazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crazy	cop
5	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					crazy property	tree rules

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