Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…
Identify the principal character of the extract and state the place in which she was found gathering blossoms.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: identify, find, gather · To what, where: principal character, she, place, blossoms
This is exam question 1 of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 character | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 character | amod |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 extract | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 extract | det |
| 7 | extract | extract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 character | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 state | cc |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extract | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 found | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 found | xcomp |
| 18 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gathering | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal character of the extract and state | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | she | the place | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gather | gerund | she not said here | blossoms | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=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 · ← Mova's choice
Persephone, beside the sea shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persephone | persephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shore | compound |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Persephone | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Proserpina, in the vale of Enna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proserpina | proserpina | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vale | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vale | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vale | det |
| 5 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Proserpina | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Enna | case |
| 7 | Enna | Enna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vale | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ceres, in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ceres | cere | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sea | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ceres | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ceres, in the vale of Enna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ceres | cere | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vale | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vale | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vale | det |
| 5 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ceres | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Enna | case |
| 7 | Enna | Enna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vale | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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