Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…
By what means did the naiad respond to Ceres's inquiry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ceres · What happens: mean, do, inquire · To what, where: naiad respond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 respond | det |
| 6 | naiad | naiad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respond | compound |
| 7 | respond | respond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 inquiry | case |
| 9 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inquiry | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Ceres | case |
| 11 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the naiad respond | to Ceres's inquiry | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | inquire | Ceres | nom inquiry «cognition 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 · ✓ the right answer
By a murmuring answer of "No!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 answer | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 3 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 answer | amod |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 No | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 answer | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
By a sudden shout
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 shout | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shout | det |
| 3 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shout | amod |
| 4 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By a soft sigh and a shrug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 sigh | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sigh | det |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sigh | amod |
| 4 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shrug | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shrug | det |
| 7 | shrug | shrug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sigh | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By whispering a faint 'Yes'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 whispering | mark |
| 2 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 faint | det |
| 4 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whispering | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 whispering | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | a faint | tree rules |
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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