Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

What was the condition of the fruit that Proserpina consumed in the king's palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: be, consume · To what, where: condition, fruit, palace

This is exam question 3 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	4 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 consumed	mark
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 consumed	nsubj
10	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consumed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the condition				of the fruit	tree rules
2	consume	past	Proserpina	the fruit not said here		the king's palace			vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Asset

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

Dry and shrivelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shrivelled	cc
3	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivell	participle							tree rules

Option 2

Plump, glossy and full of juice when picked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 glossy	punct
3	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Plump	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 full	cc
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Plump	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 juice	case
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 picked	mark
9	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 full	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bright red and sweet-smelling as if just cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 red	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smelling	cc
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smelling	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sweet	punct
6	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 red	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 cut	advmod
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 smelling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Soft and bruised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bruised	cc
3	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bruise	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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