Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

Proper sus that Proserpina ain't eaten in six months, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not eat · To what, where: Proserpina

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sus	amod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 eaten	mark
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	nsubj
5	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux:pass
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eaten	advmod
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sus	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 months	case
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 months	nummod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eaten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 sus	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · passive		Proserpina			month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Nope, she snacked on sweets a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 snacked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snacked	nsubj
4	snacked	snack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sweets	case
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snacked	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snacked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snack	past	she	a lot				on sweets	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sweet=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, not a single bite, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bite	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bite	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bite	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bite	amod
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	she						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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