Exam question 1 · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

What condition did the owl set before revealing the means of deliverance to the storks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition, the · What happens: do, reveal, mean · To what, where: owl set

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 revealing	mark
8	revealing	reveal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 revealing	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 deliverance	case
12	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 storks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 storks	det
15	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 deliverance	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition	the owl set		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality
2	reveal	gerund	what condition not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	present	the		of deliverance to the storks	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

That one of the storks should offer her his hand in marriage and take her home to Bagdad

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 offer	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storks	det
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 offer	aux
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offer	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 marriage	case
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 offer	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 home	nmod:poss
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Bagdad	case
18	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	should	that one of the storks	his hand	her = she	marriage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=Theme
2	take	infinitive	that one of the storks not said here	her home	Bagdad				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to bagdad=Destination

Option 2

That she gets a stork's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gets	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 stork	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	That	a stork's hand					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That one of the storks should offer her his hand in marriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 offer	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storks	det
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 offer	aux
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offer	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 marriage	case
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	should	that one of the storks	his hand	her = she	marriage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=Theme

Option 4

That one of the storks should offer her his hand in marriage at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 offer	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storks	det
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 offer	aux
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offer	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 marriage	case
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 offer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	should	that one of the storks	his hand	her = she	marriage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=Theme

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