Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

To what destination did the wearied stork intend to fly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: destination, wearied stork · What happens: do, weary, intend, fly

This is exam question 1 of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
6	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stork	amod
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 intend	nsubj
8	intend	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fly	mark
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 intend	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	destination	tree rules
2	weary	participle		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	intend	present	the wearied stork	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wearied stork not said here	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 warmer climates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 warmer	mark
2	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 climates	amod
3	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

to a colder north land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	5 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 land	det
3	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 land	amod
4	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 land	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	south	south	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	root	root

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

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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