Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

What is the purpose of the monkey's final words to the shark?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, final words, monkey · What happens: be, purpose, word

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 words	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 words	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 monkey	case
9	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 purpose	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 shark	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shark	det
13	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 words	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the purpose of the monkey's final words to the shark		tree rules
2	purpose		the monkey's final words to the shark		nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
3	word		the monkey	to the shark	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 · ✓ the right answer

To dismiss the shark on his homeward voyage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dismiss	mark
2	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 voyage	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 voyage	nmod:poss
7	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 voyage	compound
8	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismiss	to-infinitive		the shark		his homeward voyage			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme
2	voyage		his = he						nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

To warn the shark of danger ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warn	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 danger	case
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shark	nmod
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 warn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive		the shark of danger				ahead property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To dismiss the shark so the monkey can escape the water and climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dismiss	mark
2	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 escape	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 escape	aux
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dismiss	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 climb	cc
13	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 escape	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dismiss	to-infinitive		the shark	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme
2	escape	can	the monkey	the water	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Initial_Location
3	climb	present	the monkey not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

To dismiss the shark on his long homeward voyage back to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dismiss	mark
2	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 voyage	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 voyage	nmod:poss
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voyage	amod
8	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voyage	compound
9	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obl
10	back	back	ADV	_	2 dismiss	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dismiss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismiss	to-infinitive		the shark		his long homeward voyage		to sea	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shark=Theme to sea=Destination
2	voyage		his = he						nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

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