Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

no cap, why did Pluto even offer her food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: Pluto

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 food	advmod
8	offer	offer	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 food	nmod:poss
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	Pluto				offer Pluto's food	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pluto=Eventuality

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

he figured if she ate there she'd have to stay forever

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 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 ate	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	advcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ate	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 figured	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he			tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	she	there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	would	she			tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	she not said here		forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was trying to get back at Ceres for the feud

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	3 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Ceres	case
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 feud	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feud	det
11	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			Ceres		for the feud	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for feud=Source

Option 3

so she would like him more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	she	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted her stuck in his realm

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nmod:poss
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 realm	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 realm	nmod:poss
7	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he					stuck property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

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