Exam question 4 · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

For what purpose does the king depart from his queen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, depart

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 purpose	nsubj
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	nsubj
7	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 queen	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 queen	nmod:poss
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						for purpose	tree rules
2	depart	present	the king					from king's queen	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from queen=Initial_Location

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

to trade with merchants abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trade	mark
2	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 merchants	case
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trade	obl
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 trade	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	to-infinitive						with merchants; abroad property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with merchant=Co-Agent

Option 2

to hunt whales in cold seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 seas	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seas	amod
6	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive		whales		cold seas			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whale=Theme in sea=Location

Option 3

to sail far away and battle the rebels on faraway shores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sail	mark
2	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 sail	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 battle	cc
6	battle	battle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sail	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rebels	det
8	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 battle	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shores	case
10	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shores	amod
11	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 battle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	to-infinitive						away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	battle	infinitive		the rebels		faraway shores			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebel=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to quell revolt on distant islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 quell	mark
2	quell	quell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revolt	revolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quell	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 islands	case
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 islands	amod
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quell	to-infinitive		revolt		distant islands			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolt=Patient

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