Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

What was the purpose for which the swan-princess undertook her journey north?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: purpose, swan princess, princess · What happens: be, undertake, journey · To what, where: journey

This is exam question 3 of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 undertook	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
8	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 princess	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 swan	punct
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 undertook	nsubj
11	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 purpose	acl:relcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 journey	nmod:poss
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 undertook	obj
14	north	north	ADV	_	11 undertook	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the purpose			tree rules
2	undertake	past	the swan princess	princess's journey	for the purpose; north property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
3	journey		princess			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 obtain moor-flowers for her sick father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 moor	punct
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 obtain	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 father	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 father	amod
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		moor flowers				for her sick father	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for father=Asset

Option 2

to pick moor-flowers for her ill husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pick	mark
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 moor	punct
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pick	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 husband	amod
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	to-infinitive		moor flowers				for her ill husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for husband=Beneficiary

Option 3

to carry reeds home to her sick father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 father	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 father	amod
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive		reeds	her sick father			home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reed=Theme to father=Destination

Option 4

to fetch moor-flowers for her sick mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 moor	punct
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fetch	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 mother	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		moor flowers				for her sick mother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for mother=Beneficiary

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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