Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

Which object did the servant use to present the withered pomegranate to Proserpina?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: use, present, wither · To what, where: withered pomegranate, Proserpina

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 present	mark
8	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pomegranate	det
10	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pomegranate	amod
11	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 present	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Proserpina	case
13	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pomegranate	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which object			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	present	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the withered pomegranate	Proserpina	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Theme to proserpina=Recipient
3	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

A golden salver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 salver	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 salver	amod
3	salver	salver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plate	det
2	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A carved bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A silver platter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 platter	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 platter	amod
3	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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