Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

With reference to the passage, state the reason the papa stork gives for wishing to hide the swan feathers.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: papa stork · What happens: give, wish, hide · To what, where: reason, swan feathers

This is exam question 3 of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stork	det
11	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stork	compound
12	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	acl:relcl
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 wishing	mark
15	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gives	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hide	mark
17	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wishing	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feathers	det
19	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feathers	compound
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hide	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	present	the papa stork	the reason not said here	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	wish	gerund	the papa stork not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the papa stork not said here	the swan feathers	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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 stop the princesses flying north again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 princesses	acl
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the princesses			again		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality princess=Eventuality
2	fly	gerund	the princesses not said here					north property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To prevent the princesses from returning to the moor and the Marsh King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 returning	mark
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 moor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 King	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
12	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	compound
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 returning	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		the princesses					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer princess=Theme
2	return	gerund						to the moor result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to moor=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To prevent the princesses from returning to the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 returning	mark
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 moor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		the princesses					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer princess=Theme
2	return	gerund						to the moor result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to moor=Result

Option 4

To prevent the princesses from returning to the moor, so they stay with the storks forever

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 returning	mark
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 moor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stay	nsubj
13	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prevent	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 storks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 storks	det
16	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stay	obl
17	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		the princesses		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer princess=Theme
2	return	gerund			to the moor result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to moor=Result
3	stay	present	princesses = princess		with the storks; forever property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stork=Location

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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