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title: To what purpose did the eagle undertake his journey in company with… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what purpose did the eagle undertake his journey in company with Jack? Exam question 2 of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

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To what purpose did the eagle undertake his journey in company with Jack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** undertake, journey · **To what, where:** journey, company

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1955-pg7439-part14/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:e2:1
# text = To what purpose did the eagle undertake his journey in company with Jack?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · do-support | the eagle | eagle's journey |  | company with Jack |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **journey** |  | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To conduct Jack back to the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:e2:o1:1
# text = To conduct Jack back to the castle
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct back** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  | the castle |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme to castle=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To carry Jack to the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:e2:o2:1
# text = To carry Jack to the sea
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  | the sea |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme to sea=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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For fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:e2:o3:1
# text = For fun
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To bring the box back to the ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:e2:o4:1
# text = To bring the box back to the ship
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | to-infinitive |  | the box |  | the ship |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme to ship=Destination |

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**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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