Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

Innit wild that Ceres made the whole earth go dead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ceres, whole earth · What happens: make, go · To what, where: whole earth

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 earth	amod
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Ceres	the whole earth					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the whole earth not said here					dead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

Yeah, the crops all died off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crops	det
4	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 died	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die off	past	the crops					all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, no grass, no flowers, no crops, and the farmers were starving to death everywhere

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grass	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flowers	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grass	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crops	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 crops	det
10	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flowers	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 starving	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 starving	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmers	det
14	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 starving	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 starving	aux
16	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grass	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 starving	obl
19	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 starving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	the farmers	no grass and no flowers and no crops not said here				to death; everywhere property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, the whole world went gray and quiet, with no birds or rivers or anything alive

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quiet	cc
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gray	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 birds	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 birds	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 rivers	cc
15	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 anything	cc
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 birds	conj
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the whole world					with no birds or rivers; alive, gray property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bird=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, no grass, no flowers, nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grass	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flowers	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grass	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 flowers	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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