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title: To what destination did the wearied stork intend to fly? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what destination did the wearied stork intend to fly? Exam question 1 of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

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To what destination did the wearied stork intend to fly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** destination, wearied stork · **What happens:** do, weary, intend, fly

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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/927-pg27200-part138/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:e1:1
# text = To what destination did the wearied stork intend to fly?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	intend	intend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | destination |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weary** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **intend** | present | the wearied stork |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wearied stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to warmer climates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:e1:o1:1
# text = to warmer climates
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	climates	climate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to a colder north land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:e1:o2:1
# text = to a colder north land
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:e1:o3:1
# text = south
1	south	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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abroad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:e1:o4:1
# text = abroad
1	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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