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description: According to the narrator, for what purpose was the picture of the smoking house ultimately executed? Exam question 3 of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, w
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

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According to the narrator, for what purpose was the picture of the smoking house ultimately executed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** purpose · **What happens:** accord, be, execute · **To what, where:** narrator, picture, smoking house

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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/910-pg27200-part121/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:910-pg27200-part121:e3:1
# text = According to the narrator, for what purpose was the picture of the smoking house ultimately executed?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the narrator *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrator=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | past | purpose | the picture |  |  |  | of the smoking house | tree rules |
| 3 | **execute** | participle |  | the smoking house *not said here* |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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For money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:910-pg27200-part121:e3:o1:1
# text = For money
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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For the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:910-pg27200-part121:e3:o2:1
# text = For the house
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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For the sake of the blooming rose-bush alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:910-pg27200-part121:e3:o3:1
# text = For the sake of the blooming rose-bush alone
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To show the ruin and the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:910-pg27200-part121:e3:o4:1
# text = To show the ruin and the fire
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | the ruin and the fire |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruin=Recipient |

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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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