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title: By what sense were the mariners principally drawn toward the palace? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what sense were the mariners principally drawn toward the palace? Exam question 1 of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

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By what sense were the mariners principally drawn toward the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** draw · **To what, where:** mariners

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2063-pg976-part22/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e1:1
# text = By what sense were the mariners principally drawn toward the palace?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obl	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive |  | the mariners |  |  |  | toward the palace; principally *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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By sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e1:o1:1
# text = By sight
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By the taste of wine carried on the breeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e1:o2:1
# text = By the taste of wine carried on the breeze
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | participle |  | the taste of wine *not said here* |  | the breeze |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **taste** |  |  | wine |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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By the scent of roasting meat carried on the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e1:o3:1
# text = By the scent of roasting meat carried on the wind
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | participle |  | roasting meat *not said here* |  | the wind |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scent** |  |  | roasting meat |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By the sight of gold on the towers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e1:o4:1
# text = By the sight of gold on the towers
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sight** |  |  | gold |  | the towers |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient on=place |

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**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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