Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

so what made the flowers pop up everywhere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flowers · What happens: make, pop up

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pop	nsubj
6	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pop	compound:prt
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 pop	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past							tree rules
2	pop up	present	the flowers					everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the spring rain falling down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rain	compound
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 rain	acl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	gerund	the spring rain not said here					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Proserpina stepping on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proserpina	proserpina	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Proserpina	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	gerund	Proserpina not said here			the ground			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory

Option 3

her feet touching the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touching	nsubj
3	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund	her feet	the earth					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme

Option 4

Pluto's magic spreading across the whole upper world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 magic	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Pluto	case
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 magic	acl
5	across	across	ADP	_	9 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
8	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund	Pluto's magic not said here			the whole upper world			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across world=Destination

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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