Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

Ngl, how did Quicksilver get past the three-headed dog?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: get

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	compound
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	past	past	ADP	_	12 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 headed	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 three	punct
11	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Ngl					past the headed dog	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past dog=Destination

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

He jumped right over it with a flying leap, cos he's fast like that

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 leap	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 leap	det
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 leap	amod
9	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 fast	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fast	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fast	cop
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 jumped	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	He	it	with a flying leap; right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	he		like that; fast property	tree rules

Option 2

He tossed it a sweet treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treat	det
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treat	amod
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	He	it					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary treat=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He jumped right over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	He			it		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

Option 4

He charmed it to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 charmed	nsubj
2	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 charmed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 charmed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charm	past	He	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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