Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

What is the principal function of Quicksilver's embassy to King Pluto within the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal function · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 function	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 function	amod
5	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 embassy	case
7	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 embassy	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Quicksilver	case
9	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 function	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Pluto	case
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pluto	nmod:desc
12	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 embassy	nmod
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 function	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal function of Quicksilver's embassy to Pluto King within the narrative						tree rules

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

To arrange a marriage between Proserpina and Pluto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 arrange	mark
2	arrange	arrange	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marriage	det
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrange	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 Proserpina	case
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 marriage	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Pluto	cc
8	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Proserpina	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	to-infinitive		a marriage				between Proserpina and Pluto	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme between proserpina=Destination

Option 2

To procure the return of Proserpina and also to bring Pluto a message from Jupiter about his realm of the dead

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 procure	mark
2	procure	procure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 return	det
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 procure	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Proserpina	case
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	10 bring	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bring	mark
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 procure	conj
11	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 message	det
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Jupiter	case
15	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 message	nmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 realm	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 realm	nmod:poss
18	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 dead	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dead	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 realm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	procure	to-infinitive		the return of Proserpina			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
2	bring	to-infinitive		a message	Pluto	about Jupiter's realm of the dead	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent pluto=Destination message=Theme
3	return		Proserpina				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

To procure the return of Proserpina to the upper world, where Ceres had been searching for her in grief

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 procure	mark
2	procure	procure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 return	det
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 procure	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Proserpina	case
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 procure	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 searching	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 searching	advmod
13	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 searching	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 searching	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 searching	aux
16	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 procure	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 searching	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 grief	case
20	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	procure	to-infinitive		the return of Proserpina		to the upper world	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
2	search	past · perfect · progressive	Ceres		grief	for Proserpina	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme in grief=Location
3	return		Proserpina				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To procure the return of Proserpina to the upper world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 procure	mark
2	procure	procure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 return	det
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 procure	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Proserpina	case
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 procure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	procure	to-infinitive		the return of Proserpina				to the upper world	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
2	return		Proserpina						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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