Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

State the purpose for which the cook hung the nest-basket in the kitchen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State purpose · What happens: hang · To what, where: nest basket, kitchen

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purpose	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 cook	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cook	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purpose	nmod
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basket	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nest	punct
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basket	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the State purpose for the cook	the nest basket		the kitchen			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme in kitchen=Destination

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 earn merit, because the Pigeon had asked him kindly to do it for the family

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 earn	mark
2	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 asked	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pigeon	det
7	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	aux
9	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 earn	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 earn	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 earn	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 family	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		merit		kindly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	the Pigeon		him = he		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	do	to-infinitive		Pigeon		for the family	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In order to earn merit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 earn	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 earn	mark
4	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		merit					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Theme

Option 3

To scare the crows away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crows	det
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	to-infinitive		the crows				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer

Option 4

To earn merit so that he would be reborn better in his next life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 earn	mark
2	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 reborn	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reborn	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reborn	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 reborn	aux:pass
9	reborn	reborn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 earn	advcl
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 earn	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		merit		his next life		well property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Theme
2	reborn	would · passive		he					tree rules

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