Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

What was the nature of the torch carried by Ceres throughout her night of searching?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, night · What happens: be, carry, search · To what, where: torch

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 torch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 torch	det
7	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 torch	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Ceres	case
10	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 carried	obl:agent
11	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 night	nmod:poss
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 searching	case
15	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 night	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the torch			tree rules
2	carry	participle		the torch not said here	night	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	search	gerund	her night not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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

It was made of pine and smelled sweet

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pine	case
5	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smelled	cc
7	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of pine	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	smell	past						sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was not extinguished by rain or wind

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 extinguished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinguished	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 extinguished	advmod
4	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 rain	case
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 extinguished	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wind	cc
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not extinguish	past · passive	rain or wind	It					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

It gave off a strong and steady light

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 light	det
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 steady	cc
7	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strong	conj
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	past	It	a strong light					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source light=Theme

Option 4

It burned very brightly

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	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 brightly	advmod
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	2 burned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	It					brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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