Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

What was the principal purpose of King Pluto in offering Proserpina food?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal purpose, Pluto · What happens: be, offer, purpose · To what, where: Proserpina food

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» 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	5 purpose	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 purpose	amod
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Pluto	case
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Pluto	nmod:desc
8	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 purpose	nmod
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 offering	mark
10	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 purpose	acl
11	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 food	compound
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offering	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal purpose of Pluto King		tree rules
2	offer	gerund	the principal purpose of Pluto King not said here	Proserpina food	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	purpose		Pluto King		nom purpose «cognition 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

To punish Ceres by holding her daughter in the underworld for ever more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 punish	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 holding	mark
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 punish	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 underworld	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 underworld	det
10	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 more	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		Ceres					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceres=Patient
2	hold	gerund		Ceres's daughter		the underworld		for more	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in underworld=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To bind her to his dominions by means of a meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bind	mark
2	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bind	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 dominions	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dominions	nmod:poss
6	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bind	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 means	case
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 meal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 meal	det
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	to-infinitive		her = she				to his dominions	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Patient to dominion=Co-Patient
2	mean	present						of a meal	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To trick her into staying in his realm forever, since eating below binds one to it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 staying	mark
5	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 trick	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 realm	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 realm	nmod:poss
8	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staying	obl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 staying	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eating	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 staying	conj
13	below	below	ADP	_	14 binds	case
14	binds	bind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eating	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 eating	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive	her = she			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	stay	gerund		his realm	forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in realm=Location
3	eat	gerund	one	binds	to realm	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

To keep her happy with rich dishes and gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 happy	nmod:poss
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 dishes	case
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dishes	amod
7	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gifts	cc
9	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dishes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive						with rich dishes and gifts; happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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