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title: In what manner does the narrator characterise the prince's recovery… — Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner does the narrator characterise the prince's recovery under the care of Ceres? Exam question 4 of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Exam question 4 · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

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In what manner does the narrator characterise the prince's recovery under the care of Ceres?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince, Ceres · **What happens:** do, characterise, recover, care · **To what, where:** narrator, manner

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» 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/2073-pg976-part32/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:e4:1
# text = In what manner does the narrator characterise the prince's recovery under the care of Ceres?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	characterise	characterise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the narrator |  | what manner |  | under the care of Ceres | tree rules |
| 2 | **characterise** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **care** |  | Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of any ordinary observer in the household

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:e4:o1:1
# text = As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of any ordinary observer in the household
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	observer	observer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** |  |  | any ordinary observer in the household |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers, who had given the boy up for dead

<!-- fold The tree, 19 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:e4:o2:1
# text = As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers, who had given the boy up for dead
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past · perfect | ordinary observers | the boy |  |  |  | for dead | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source |
| 2 | **expect** |  |  | ordinary observers |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As sudden and beyond normal hope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:e4:o3:1
# text = As sudden and beyond normal hope
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:e4:o4:1
# text = As remarkable, rapid, and entirely beyond the expectation of ordinary observers
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** |  |  | ordinary observers |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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