Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

In the narrative, what reason does Cilix give for abandoning the search?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cilix · What happens: give, abandon · To what, where: narrative, search

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 narrative	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrative	det
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 narrative	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 does	obj
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
8	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 abandoning	mark
11	abandoning	abandon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 give	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 search	det
13	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 abandoning	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	Cilix			the narrative			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	abandon	gerund	Cilix not said here	the search					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme search=Source

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

That Europa would now be a grown woman who regarded them as strangers and would not wish to return home with them

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Europa	det
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 woman	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 woman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 regarded	nsubj
10	regarded	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 regarded	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 strangers	case
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 regarded	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wish	cc
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wish	advmod
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 regarded	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 return	mark
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 return	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	would	that Europa	a grown woman	now		tree rules
3	regard	past	a grown woman	them = they		as strangers	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme as stranger=Value
4	not wish	would	a grown woman not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	a grown woman not said here			with strangers = stranger; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

That Europa would be a woman who thinks them strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Europa	det
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 woman	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 thinks	nsubj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinks	obj
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thinks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	that Europa	a woman					tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	a woman	them = they					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme stranger=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That Europa would now be a grown woman who regarded them as strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Europa	det
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 woman	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 woman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 regarded	nsubj
10	regarded	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 regarded	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 strangers	case
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 regarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	would	that Europa	a grown woman	now		tree rules
3	regard	past	a grown woman	them = they		as strangers	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme as stranger=Value

Option 4

That Europa might now be married to a prince and be happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Europa	det
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 married	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 married	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 married	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 happy	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 happy	cop
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 married	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	might · passive		that Europa			now	to a prince	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to prince=Co-Patient
2	is	infinitive						happy property	tree rules

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