Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

deadass, who was waiting on the doorstep?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass · What happens: wait · To what, where: doorstep

This is test 8 · ★ 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 waiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 deadass	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 doorstep	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doorstep	det
8	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	deadass			the doorstep			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on doorstep=Location

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

Mother Ceres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	appos

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ceres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

her mother

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 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the cook Dorcas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Dorcas	Dorcas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cook	appos

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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