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description: Which action of Ceres is most clearly motivated by her grief for Proserpina? Exam question 2 of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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Which action of Ceres is most clearly motivated by her grief for Proserpina?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grief, Ceres · **What happens:** motivate, act · **To what, where:** action

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2074 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres tests the baby in the fire, then lets the earth go barren» 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/2074-pg976-part33/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e2:1
# text = Which action of Ceres is most clearly motivated by her grief for Proserpina?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	motivated	motivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **motivate** | present · passive | Ceres's grief for Proserpina | which action of Ceres |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **act** |  | Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «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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Her gift of grain to Triptolemus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e2:o1:1
# text = Her gift of grain to Triptolemus
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Triptolemus	Triptolemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  | Her *= she* | grain |  |  |  | to Triptolemus | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient to=obl |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Her wandering

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e2:o2:1
# text = Her wandering
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wandering	wandering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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The withholding of all growth from the earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e2:o3:1
# text = The withholding of all growth from the earth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	withholding	withholding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withhold** |  |  | all growth from the earth |  |  |  |  | nom withholding «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sending of the herald to Pluto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e2:o4:1
# text = The sending of the herald to Pluto
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  |  | Pluto |  |  | of the herald | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of herald=Initial\_Location to pluto=Destination |

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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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