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title: How does the narrator characterise Proserpina's endurance of her fas… — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: How does the narrator characterise Proserpina's endurance of her fast in the palace? Exam question 3 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 tr
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# Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 33: Ceres te…

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How does the narrator characterise Proserpina's endurance of her fast in the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrator · **What happens:** characterise · **To what, where:** endurance, palace

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e3:1
# text = How does the narrator characterise Proserpina's endurance of her fast in the palace?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	characterise	characterise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characterise** | present · do-support | the narrator | Proserpina's endurance of Proserpina |  | the palace |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

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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 weakness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = As weakness
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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As a remarkable and creditable self-restraint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = As a remarkable and creditable self-restraint
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	creditable	creditable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	restraint	restraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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As an ordinary, expected good manner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = As an ordinary, expected good manner
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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As a sad and pitiable form of hunger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2074-pg976-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = As a sad and pitiable form of hunger
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  |  | hunger |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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