Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

What was the principal motive of the fowls in visiting the duckyard?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal motive, fowls · What happens: be, visit · To what, where: duckyard

This is exam question 4 of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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	5 motive	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 motive	amod
5	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fowls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fowls	det
8	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 motive	nmod
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 visiting	mark
10	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 fowls	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duckyard	det
12	duckyard	duckyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visiting	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal motive of the fowls						tree rules
2	visit	gerund	the fowls not said here	the duckyard					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckyard=Co-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

to get seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		seeds					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus

Option 2

for grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

to find corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		corn					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to obtain food

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	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		food					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=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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