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title: By what method was the party for the advance determined? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what method was the party for the advance determined? Exam question 3 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 question an
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# Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

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By what method was the party for the advance determined?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, determine · **To what, where:** party

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e3:1
# text = By what method was the party for the advance determined?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the party |  |  |  | by method; for the advance | tree rules |
| 2 | **determine** | participle |  | the party *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e3:o1:1
# text = By vote
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vote	vote	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 casting bones from a bronze jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e3:o2:1
# text = By casting bones from a bronze jar
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | gerund |  | bones |  | a bronze jar |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent bone=Product from jar=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By the captain's choice of his bravest men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e3:o3:1
# text = By the captain's choice of his bravest men
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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By drawing shells from a helmet marked Go and Stay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:e3:o4:1
# text = By drawing shells from a helmet marked Go and Stay
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	Go	Go	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund |  | shells |  | a helmet |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent shell=Theme from helmet=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mark** | participle | a helmet *not said here* | Go |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent go=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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