Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…
So is the little prince gonna live forever now or what?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little prince · What happens: be, live
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 live | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 So | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | nsubj |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 prince | dep |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 9 now | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 live | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 live | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | the little prince | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «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
Yeah, he's immortal now, sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 immortal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 immortal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 immortal | cop |
| 5 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 immortal | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorted | punct |
| 8 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 immortal | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | now | immortal property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sort | participle | he not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 forever | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, he's gonna die like everyone else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 die | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | cop |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | PART | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 everyone | case |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 die | obl |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 everyone | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | like everyone; die property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he's gonna live loads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 loads | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loads | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loads | cop |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | X | _ | 7 loads | compound |
| 6 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loads | amod |
| 7 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | gonna live loads | tree rules |
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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