Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

Indicate the purpose for which the aged king obtained the goose.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, aged king · What happens: indicate, obtain · To what, where: purpose, goose

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 obtained	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtained	nsubj
9	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 purpose	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goose	det
11	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtained	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the purpose					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purpose=Topic
2	obtain	past	the aged king	the goose				for the purpose	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent goose=Theme for which=Asset

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

to cheer him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cheer	mark
2	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheer	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 cheer	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer up	to-infinitive		him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to dive for trout and divert the old king from his grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 dive	mark
2	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 trout	case
4	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dive	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 divert	cc
6	divert	divert	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dive	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divert	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 grief	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grief	nmod:poss
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divert	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	to-infinitive						for trout	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trout=Theme
2	divert	infinitive		the old king		king's grief			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to divert him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 divert	mark
2	divert	divert	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 divert	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divert	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4

to divert the old king from his sad, long years in the glen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 divert	mark
2	divert	divert	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 divert	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	11 years	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 years	nmod:poss
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sad	punct
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 divert	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glen	det
14	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 divert	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divert	to-infinitive		the old king		the glen	year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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