Test 6 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Real talk, what did Iambe do to make the mum smile?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk, mum · What happens: make, smile · To what, where: mum

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	Iambe	Iambe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mum	det
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · do-support	Real talk	the mum					tree rules
2	smile	infinitive	the mum not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

she cracked jokes and was playful with everyone in the hall, even the guards

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cracked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 playful	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 playful	cop
6	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cracked	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 playful	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 guards	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 guards	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	she	jokes		the hall		the guards obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=Theme
2	is	past	she not said here					with everyone; playful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she told loads of silly stories and made the mum laugh really hard for ages

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mum	det
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laugh	nsubj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laugh	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	loads of silly stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent load=Recipient
2	make	past	she not said here			tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	the mum		hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she brought some warm bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	she	some warm bread					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she cracked jokes and was playful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cracked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 playful	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 playful	cop
6	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cracked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	she	jokes					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=Theme
2	is	past	she not said here					playful property	tree rules

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