Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: assign · To what, where: bird

This is exam question 4 of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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	4 assigned	nsubj:pass
2	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assigned	aux:pass
4	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 partnership	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 partnership	det
10	partnership	partnership	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 assigned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	past · passive			the bird			within the partnership	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to bird=Goal

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 fly out into the wood each day and bring back fuel for the fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fly	mark
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 fly	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fly	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 bring	advmod
12	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	to-infinitive					day	into the wood result; out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
2	bring back	infinitive		fuel				for the fire	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme

Option 2

To collect wood from the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 collect	mark
2	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collect	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	to-infinitive		wood		the trees			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme from tree=Source

Option 3

To fly far away deep into the forest and gather fuel and sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fly	mark
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 fly	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	8 forest	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gather	cc
10	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fly	conj
11	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gather	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sticks	cc
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fuel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	to-infinitive						into the forest result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
2	gather	infinitive		fuel and sticks					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To fly into the wood for fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fly	mark
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fuel	case
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	to-infinitive						into the wood result; for fuel	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

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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