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title: Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented… — Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented at the banquet? Exam question 2 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Exam question 2 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

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Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented at the banquet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material · **What happens:** do, present · **To what, where:** Antonio employ, sculpture, banquet

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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/360-pg18442-part20/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e2:1
# text = Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented at the banquet?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Canova	Canova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which material | Antonio employ |  |  |  | for the sculpture | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **present** | participle |  | the sculpture *not said here* |  | the banquet |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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Clay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e2:o1:1
# text = Clay
1	Clay	clay	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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Yellow butter from the dairy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e2:o2:1
# text = Yellow butter from the dairy
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yellow clay from the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e2:o3:1
# text = Yellow clay from the river
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yellow butter carefully collected from the dairy of the Count's estate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e2:o4:1
# text = Yellow butter carefully collected from the dairy of the Count's estate
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | participle · passive |  | Yellow butter |  | the dairy of the Count's estate |  | carefully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from dairy=Source |

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