Test 7 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Did the crops grow when Demeter was sad, or was it all dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crops, Demeter · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: it

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crops	det
3	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
6	Demeter	Demeter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sad	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 it	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 it	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 it	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 all	amod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	the crops			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Demeter		sad property	tree rules
3	is a	past		it		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 · ← Mova's choice

it was all frozen, no growth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 frozen	advmod
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 growth	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 growth	det
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		it				no growth obl; all property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was all barren, no harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 barren	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 barren	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 barren	det
4	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 harvest	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 harvest	det
7	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barren	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					barren property	tree rules

Option 3

it was dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	cop
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					dry property	tree rules

Option 4

all dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dead	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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