Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

bro, what did the cook keep making?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cook, bro · What happens: keep, make · To what, where: bro

This is test 13 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 keep	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	conj
8	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the cook	bro					tree rules
2	make	gerund	bro not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

a long string of courses that never stopped coming out of the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 courses	case
5	courses	course	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 string	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stopped	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 stopped	advmod
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 string	acl:relcl
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	a long string of courses						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	come out	gerund	a long string of courses not said here	the kitchen					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient kitchen=Result

Option 2

meat and rich sauces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sauces	cc
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sauces	amod
4	sauces	sauce	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 meat	conj

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

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

dishes and fancy stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stuff	cc
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	amod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dishes	conj

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

Option 4

every kind of feast, from roasted meats to sugared pastries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 feast	case
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meats	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 meats	case
7	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meats	amod
8	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pastries	case
10	sugared	sugar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pastries	amod
11	pastries	pastry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sugar	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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