Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

bruh, how many heads does that guard dog have?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many heads · What happens: have

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	10 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heads	amod
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 dog	det
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	compound
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	many heads						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

three heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

four heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

like a hundred heads that never stop barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 heads	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stop	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stop	advmod
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heads	acl:relcl
8	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	hundred heads						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bark	gerund	hundred heads not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

three heads, all snarling at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snarling	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 snarling	advmod
5	snarling	snarl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heads	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 snarling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	gerund	three heads not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at once=Stimulus

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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