Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

For what purpose does the thistle display its flower, according to the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thistle · What happens: display, accord · To what, where: flower, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 display	obl
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 display	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thistle	det
6	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 display	nsubj
7	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flower	nmod:poss
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 display	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 according	punct
11	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 display	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 according	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 display	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display	present · do-support	the thistle	thistle's flower					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
2	accord	gerund	the thistle not said here					to the passage goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to passage=Goal

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 adorn the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 adorn	mark
2	adorn	adorn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grave	det
4	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adorn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adorn	to-infinitive		the grave					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination

Option 2

To feed the bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bees	det
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			the bees				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient

Option 3

For beauty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

To catch the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the sun					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=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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