Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

Which character first perceived that Proserpina had partaken of a morsel of the fruit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, Proserpina · What happens: perceive, partake

This is exam question 4 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 perceived	advmod
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 partaken	mark
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 partaken	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 partaken	aux
8	partaken	partake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 perceived	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 morsel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 morsel	det
11	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 partaken	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fruit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fruit	det
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 morsel	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	which character					first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	partake	past · perfect	Proserpina					of a morsel of the fruit	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

the king's servant who carried the salver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servant	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salver	det
8	salver	salver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the king's servant	the salver					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salver=Theme

Option 2

the king's steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steward	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Proserpina's maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 maid	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Proserpina	case
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Quicksilver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quicksilver	quicksilver	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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