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title: What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership? Exam question 4 of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

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What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** assign · **To what, where:** bird

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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/744-pg2591-part20/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:e4:1
# text = What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | past · passive |  |  | the bird |  |  | within the partnership | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to bird=Goal |

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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 {#o1}

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To fly out into the wood each day and bring back fuel for the fire

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:e4:o1:1
# text = To fly out into the wood each day and bring back fuel for the fire
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | into the wood *result*; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
| 2 | **bring back** | infinitive |  | fuel |  |  |  | for the fire | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To collect wood from the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:e4:o2:1
# text = To collect wood from the trees
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	collect	collect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | to-infinitive |  | wood |  | the trees |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme from tree=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To fly far away deep into the forest and gather fuel and sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:e4:o3:1
# text = To fly far away deep into the forest and gather fuel and sticks
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into the forest *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result |
| 2 | **gather** | infinitive |  | fuel and sticks |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To fly into the wood for fuel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:e4:o4:1
# text = To fly into the wood for fuel
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into the wood *result*; for fuel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |

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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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