Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

To whom did the young storks direct their intended retribution, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young storks · What happens: direct, intend, accord · To what, where: intended retribution

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 direct	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storks	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 storks	amod
6	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 direct	nsubj
7	direct	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 retribution	nmod:poss
9	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 retribution	amod
10	retribution	retribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 direct	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 narrative	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 narrative	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 direct	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 direct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	direct	present	the young storks	storks's intended retribution	accord the narrative	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent retribution=Eventuality
2	intend	participle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

To the mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

To the old man by the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To the boys who taught the song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 boys	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 taught	nsubj
5	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boys	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	the boys	the song					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To the boy who first began the song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 boy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 began	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 began	advmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past		the song				to the boy; first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality

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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