Exam question 4 · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

In what manner does the narrator characterise the prince's recovery under the care of Ceres?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, Ceres · What happens: do, characterise, recover, care · To what, where: narrator, manner

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» 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 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	characterise	characterise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recovery	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 care	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 care	det
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ceres	case
16	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 care	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present		the narrator	what manner	under the care of Ceres	tree rules
2	characterise	present					tree rules
3	recover		the prince				nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent
4	care		Ceres				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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

As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of any ordinary observer in the household

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 remarkable	case
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rapid	punct
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarkable	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expectation	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 expectation	cc
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	10 expectation	advmod
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 expectation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expectation	det
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remarkable	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 observer	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 observer	det
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 observer	amod
14	observer	observer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expectation	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 household	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 household	det
17	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 observer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect			any ordinary observer in the household					nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers, who had given the boy up for dead

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 remarkable	case
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rapid	punct
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarkable	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expectation	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 expectation	cc
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	10 expectation	advmod
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 expectation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expectation	det
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remarkable	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 observers	case
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 observers	amod
13	observers	observer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 expectation	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 given	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 observers	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	17 given	compound:prt
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 dead	case
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · perfect	ordinary observers	the boy				for dead	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source
2	expect			ordinary observers					nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

As sudden and beyond normal hope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 sudden	case
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 hope	case
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hope	amod
6	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sudden	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 remarkable	case
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expectation	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rapid	punct
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarkable	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expectation	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 expectation	cc
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	10 expectation	advmod
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 expectation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expectation	det
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 observers	case
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 observers	amod
13	observers	observer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 expectation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect			ordinary observers					nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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