Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

lowkey, was Quicksilver sus about her snack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: Quicksilver sus

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sus	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sus	cop
4	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sus	compound
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 snack	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 snack	nmod:poss
8	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sus	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	Quicksilver sus				about lowkey's snack	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 he saw her eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 saw	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah he spotted the bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 spotted	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spotted	nsubj
3	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bite	det
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	he	the bite					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bite=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he clocked her nibbling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 clocked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clocked	nsubj
3	clocked	clock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nibbling	nmod:poss
5	nibbling	nibbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clock	past	he	her nibbling					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nibbling=Value

Option 4

no, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

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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