Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

According to the narrator, for what purpose was the picture of the smoking house ultimately executed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: accord, be, execute · To what, where: narrator, picture, smoking house

This is exam question 3 of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 what	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrator	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picture	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 picture	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 picture	det
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	compound
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picture	nmod
16	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	17 executed	advmod
17	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 house	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			to the narrator goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrator=Goal
2	is a	past	purpose	the picture	of the smoking house	tree rules
3	execute	participle		the smoking house not said here	ultimately property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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

For money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 money	case
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

For the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

For the sake of the blooming rose-bush alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 sake	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sake	det
3	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 bush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bush	amod
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bush	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sake	nmod
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 bush	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	gerund							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

To show the ruin and the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ruin	det
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fire	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		the ruin and the fire					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruin=Recipient

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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