Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

wait, did the birds just chill or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, birds · What happens: wait, do, chill

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» 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	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chill	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 chill	advmod
7	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 chill	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	tree rules
3	chill	present	the birds	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

they flew around the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	they			the trees			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tree=Location

Option 2

they flew off in a cloud and sang loudly over the palace roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 sang	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 roof	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roof	compound
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	they			a cloud			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location
2	sing speech: express	past	they not said here			the palace roof		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they sang their hearts out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hearts	nmod:poss
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing out speech: express	past	they	their hearts				out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme

Option 4

they hopped about on the trees and sang happily all afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 hopped	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hopped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hopped	conj
9	happily	happily	ADV	_	8 sang	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 afternoon	det
11	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop about	past	they			the trees		about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Trajectory
2	sing speech: express	past	they not said here				afternoon	happily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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