Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Which of the following correctly states the purpose of printing the written paper, as explained in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: follow, state, print, write, explain · To what, where: purpose, written paper, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purpose	det
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 printing	mark
10	printing	print	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 purpose	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 paper	det
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 paper	amod
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 printing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 explained	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 explained	mark
16	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 states	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 passage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 passage	det
19	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 explained	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the purpose		correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
3	print	gerund	the purpose not said here	the written paper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme
4	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	explain speech: assert	participle			the passage		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to reach many readers at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 reach	mark
2	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 readers	amod
4	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reach	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	to-infinitive		many readers					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent reader=Theme at once=Asset

Option 2

to reach many readers at once across the whole country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 reach	mark
2	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 readers	amod
4	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reach	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 reach	obl
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	to-infinitive		many readers		the whole country			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent reader=Theme at once=Asset

Option 3

to make money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		money					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product

Option 4

to save paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj

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

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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