Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

Upon what condition did Ceres resolve to abandon her search for her daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Ceres · What happens: resolve, abandon, search · To what, where: search

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2071 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres searches all night for her lost daughter» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 resolve	obl
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 resolve	aux
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	nsubj
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 abandon	mark
8	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 resolve	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 search	nmod:poss
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandon	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandon	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past · do-support	condition			tree rules
2	abandon	to-infinitive	condition not said here	Ceres's search	for Ceres's daughter	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme search=Source
3	search		Ceres			nom search «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

She would never stop

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	4 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	would	She						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

She would not eat until Jupiter returned her

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	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 returned	mark
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	She						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	return	past	Jupiter	her = she					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

She would not rest until the sea gave her back

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	4 rest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rest	advmod
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rest	would	She						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give back	past	the sea		her = she				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She would not return until Proserpina was discovered

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	4 return	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 return	advmod
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 discovered	mark
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discovered	aux:pass
8	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 return	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not return	would	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discover	past · passive		Proserpina					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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