Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Yo, did Proserpina seriously bite a pomegranate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: bite · To what, where: pomegranate

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
5	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 bite	advmod
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pomegranate	det
8	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past · do-support	Proserpina	a pomegranate				seriously property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Patient

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

Yep, a dry shriveled one, when she was starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
5	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 starving	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 starving	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 starving	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 starving	aux
11	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivel	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	starve	past · progressive	she						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, a dry shriveled pomegranate, after she had been starving in the palace for days without food

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 pomegranate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pomegranate	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pomegranate	amod
5	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pomegranate	amod
6	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starving	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 starving	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 starving	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 starving	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 starving	aux
12	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pomegranate	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starving	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 starving	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 food	case
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivel	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	starve	past · perfect · progressive	she	a dry shriveled pomegranate not said here		the palace	day	without food	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, a fresh juicy one, while resting at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
5	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 resting	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 resting	mark
9	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 one	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 noon	case
11	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund	a fresh juicy one not said here				noon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, a dry shriveled one, because she was starving and her mother had been gone so long, and no one brought food

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 shriveled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shriveled	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shriveled	amod
5	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 shriveled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 starving	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 starving	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 starving	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 starving	aux
11	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shriveled	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gone	aux:pass
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 starving	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 gone	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 food	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 food	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	nsubj
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 food	amod
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shriveled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shrivel	participle		one		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	starve	past · progressive	she			tree rules
3	go	past · perfect · passive		her mother	long property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	bring	participle				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	food		no one			tree rules

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