Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…
Wait, the cattle were just following Ceres around, weren't they?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cattle · What happens: wait, follow, not be · To what, where: following Ceres, cattle
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 following | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cattle | det |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 following | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 following | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 following | advmod |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Ceres | amod |
| 8 | Ceres | Cere | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Wait | obl |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 they | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 they | cop |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 they | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | following Ceres | around property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past · progressive | the cattle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | cattle | tree rules |
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
Yeah, following her everywhere, lowing and bleating for help because they were starving
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 following | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 following | punct |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 everywhere | nmod:poss |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 following | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowing | punct |
| 7 | lowing | low | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 following | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bleating | cc |
| 9 | bleating | bleat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lowing | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bleating | obl |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 starving | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 starving | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 starving | aux |
| 15 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lowing | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | everywhere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | low | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bleat | gerund | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | starve | past · progressive | they | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, they stayed in the barn, lowing and bleating and waiting for someone to feed them
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 barn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 barn | det |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lowing | punct |
| 9 | lowing | low | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bleating | cc |
| 11 | bleating | bleat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lowing | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waiting | cc |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lowing | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 someone | case |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 waiting | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feed | mark |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lowing | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | the barn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barn=Location | ||||
| 2 | low | gerund | they not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bleat | gerund | they not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | they not said here | for someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feed | to-infinitive | they not said here | them = they | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, lowing and bleating for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 lowing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lowing | punct |
| 3 | lowing | low | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bleating | cc |
| 5 | bleating | bleat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lowing | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 help | case |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bleating | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bleat | gerund | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
Option 4
Yeah, wandering around crying out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 wandering | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandering | punct |
| 3 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 wandering | advmod |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wandering | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 crying | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder around speech: ask | gerund | around property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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