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title: Which character first perceived that Proserpina had partaken of a mo… — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character first perceived that Proserpina had partaken of a morsel of the fruit? Exam question 4 of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpi…

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Which character first perceived that Proserpina had partaken of a morsel of the fruit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character, Proserpina · **What happens:** perceive, partake

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2075 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 34: Proserpina eats a dry pomegranate and leaves Pluto's realm» 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/2075-pg976-part34/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:e4:1
# text = Which character first perceived that Proserpina had partaken of a morsel of the fruit?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	partaken	partake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | which character |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **partake** | past · perfect | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | of a morsel of the fruit | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the king's servant who carried the salver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:e4:o1:1
# text = the king's servant who carried the salver
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	salver	salver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the king's servant | the salver |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salver=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the king's steward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:e4:o2:1
# text = the king's steward
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	steward	steward	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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Proserpina's maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:e4:o3:1
# text = Proserpina's maid
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Quicksilver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2075-pg976-part34:e4:o4:1
# text = Quicksilver
1	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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