Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…
fr fr, what did the servant bring the pomegranate on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant · What happens: bring on · To what, where: fr fr
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fr | compound |
| 2 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 bring | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fr | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pomegranate | det |
| 10 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bring | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring on | past · do-support | the servant | fr fr | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme pomegranate=Destination |
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
a heavy golden plate carried in by the king's chief servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plate | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plate | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plate | amod |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plate | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 carried | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 servant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 servant | amod |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in | participle | a heavy golden plate not said here | by the king's chief servant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
a silver platter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 platter | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 platter | amod |
| 3 | platter | platter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fancy golden tray the cook had polished that morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tray | det |
| 2 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tray | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tray | amod |
| 4 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cook | det |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tray | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 polished | aux |
| 8 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 polished | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | past · perfect · passive | a fancy golden tray and the cook | morning | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a golden salver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 salver | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 salver | amod |
| 3 | salver | salver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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