Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Why did the storks fly off to Medina anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: fly off · To what, where: Medina

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fly	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storks	det
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Medina	case
8	Medina	Medina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past · do-support	the storks		Medina			anyway property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to medina=Result

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 pray at the Prophet's grave and maybe unstick the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prophet	det
5	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prophet	case
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unstick	cc
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 unstick	advmod
10	unstick	unstick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unstick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive				the Prophet's grave			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	unstick	infinitive		the spell				maybe property	tree rules

Option 2

To pray at the Prophet's grave and maybe unstick the spell, cos the Vizier was going mad

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prophet	det
5	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prophet	case
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unstick	cc
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 unstick	advmod
10	unstick	unstick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unstick	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
14	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Vizier	det
16	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 going	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 unstick	advcl
19	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive			the Prophet's grave		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	unstick	infinitive		the spell		maybe property	tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	the Vizier			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To visit the Caliph's old friend and beg help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 visit	mark
2	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 friend	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Caliph	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beg	cc
9	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friend	conj
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	to-infinitive		the Caliph's old friend and beg					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
2	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To pray at the Prophet's grave and maybe unstick the spell before the Vizier gets too grumpy about it all

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prophet	det
5	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prophet	case
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unstick	cc
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 unstick	advmod
10	unstick	unstick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pray	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unstick	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 gets	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Vizier	det
15	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gets	nsubj
16	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unstick	advcl
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 grumpy	advmod
18	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 it	amod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gets	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive			the Prophet's grave		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	unstick	infinitive		the spell		maybe property	tree rules
3	get	present	the Vizier				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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