Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

ngl, what was Ceres holding?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: Ceres

This is test 9 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 holding	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ceres	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Ceres	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ceres	cop
5	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 ngl	conj
6	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 holding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl and Ceres not said here	Ceres					tree rules
2	hold	gerund	ngl and Ceres						vn exist-47.1 «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

a golden sheaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheaf	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheaf	amod
3	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a basket of seeds and a flaming torch from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seeds	case
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 basket	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 torch	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 torch	det
7	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 torch	compound
8	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basket	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 torch	nmod

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

Option 3

a bunch of wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bunch	det
2	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wheat	case
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bunch	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a burning torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 torch	det
2	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 torch	amod
3	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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