Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Which of the following did the mother stork state as the purpose of the autumn review?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: autumn review · What happens: follow, do, purpose · To what, where: stork state

This is exam question 1 of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	obj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 did	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 state	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stork	compound
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 state	compound
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 purpose	det
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 review	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 review	det
15	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 review	compound
16	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 purpose	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the stork state	as the purpose of the autumn review	tree rules
3	purpose		the autumn review			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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 ascertain that every stork can fly properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ascertain	mark
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fly	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ascertain	advcl
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	to-infinitive							vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	fly	can	every stork					properly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To make sure every young stork can fly well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 stork	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stork	amod
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	aux
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive						sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fly	can	every young stork					well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To ascertain that every stork can fly properly and quickly in formation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ascertain	mark
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fly	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ascertain	advcl
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 quickly	cc
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 properly	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 formation	case
12	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	to-infinitive							vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	fly	can	every stork			formation		properly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in formation=Location

Option 4

To judge which storks deserve a mark of honor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 judge	mark
2	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 deserve	obj
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deserve	nsubj
5	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 judge	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mark	det
7	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deserve	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 honor	case
9	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	judge	to-infinitive			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	deserve	present	storks	a mark of honor	tree rules
3	mark			honor	nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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