Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Lol, so the earth got greener when she came back up, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: earth · What happens: get, come back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 505 «Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby, is interrupted, and the seasons begin» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	greener	green	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 got	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the earth					green property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come back	past	earth						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

yeah, the corn sprang forth again and the whole land went green and gold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sprang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sprang	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corn	det
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprang	nsubj
5	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 sprang	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 sprang	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sprang	conj
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gold	cc
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the corn				again	forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the whole land					green property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, the corn didn't come back for ages and people were still starving

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corn	det
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 people	cc
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ages	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 starving	aux
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 starving	advmod
15	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ages	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past · do-support	the corn				for ages and people		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	starve	past · progressive	ages and people not said here				still		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the fields turned green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the fields					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the corn sprang forth again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sprang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sprang	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corn	det
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprang	nsubj
5	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 sprang	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 sprang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the corn				again	forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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