Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Lowkey, was King Pluto actually a total villain?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pluto	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Pluto	cop
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pluto	nmod:desc
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 villain	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 villain	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 villain	amod
9	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Pluto	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Pluto	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	Pluto				King nmod:desc; a total villain nmod	tree rules

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

Yeah, totally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 totally	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he kidnapped her and kept her in the dark forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kidnapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kidnapped	nsubj
4	kidnapped	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kidnapped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kidnapped	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	past	he	her = she					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	keep	past	he not said here	her = she		the dark		forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3

Sort of, he did steal her from her mom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Sort	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sort	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 steal	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steal	aux
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 steal	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 mom	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mom	nmod:poss
10	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · do-support	Sort	her = she				from her mom	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from mom=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not really, Proserpina says he has good qualities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 qualities	amod
9	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Proserpina						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	Proserpina	good qualities					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient

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