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title: Upon what condition did Ceres resolve to abandon her search for her… — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what condition did Ceres resolve to abandon her search for her daughter? Exam question 1 of lesson 2071 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres searches all night for her lost daughter» 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, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres se…

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Upon what condition did Ceres resolve to abandon her search for her daughter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition, Ceres · **What happens:** resolve, abandon, search · **To what, where:** search

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2071 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 30: Ceres searches all night for her lost daughter» 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/2071-pg976-part30/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2071-pg976-part30:e1:1
# text = Upon what condition did Ceres resolve to abandon her search for her daughter?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past · do-support | condition |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **abandon** | to-infinitive | condition *not said here* | Ceres's search |  |  |  | for Ceres's daughter | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme search=Source |
| 3 | **search** |  | Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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She would never stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2071-pg976-part30:e1:o1:1
# text = She would never stop
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She would not eat until Jupiter returned her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2071-pg976-part30:e1:o2:1
# text = She would not eat until Jupiter returned her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **return** | past | Jupiter | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She would not rest until the sea gave her back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2071-pg976-part30:e1:o3:1
# text = She would not rest until the sea gave her back
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rest** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give back** | past | the sea |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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

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She would not return until Proserpina was discovered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2071-pg976-part30:e1:o4:1
# text = She would not return until Proserpina was discovered
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | past · passive |  | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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