Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…
Right, so how long did Ceres keep the crops from growing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ceres · What happens: keep, grow · To what, where: crops
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» 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 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 8 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | aux |
| 7 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crops | det |
| 10 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 12 growing | mark |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 keep | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | Ceres | the crops | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Ceres not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Until Pluto gave up and let Proserpina leave, then she started letting the crops grow
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 3 gave | mark |
| 2 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 7 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 started | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 started | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crops | det |
| 15 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 letting | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Pluto | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Pluto not said here | Proserpina | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Proserpina not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | past | Pluto | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | let | gerund | Pluto not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grow | present | the crops | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Until her daughter came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | her daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Until Jupiter sent her home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 3 sent | mark |
| 2 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Jupiter | Jupiter's home | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
Option 4
Until her daughter came back up from the underworld and the earth turned green again
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 underworld | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 underworld | det |
| 9 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turned | xcomp |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | her daughter | the underworld | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from underworld=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the earth | again | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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