Test 8 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

the kids would cling to her knees and stare at her with big sad eyes

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: cling, stare

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cling	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cling	aux
4	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cling	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stare	cc
9	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cling	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stare	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eyes	amod
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eyes	amod
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	would	the kids					to her knees	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to knee=Co-Theme
2	stare	infinitive	the kids not said here					at her = she; with big sad eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

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

they looked at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the kids ran away from her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the kids					from her = she; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory

Option 3

the children gazed at her sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gazed	nsubj
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gazed	obl
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 gazed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	the children					at her = she; sadly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the children looked up at her wistfully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 looked	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
7	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	past	the children					at her = she; wistfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

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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