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title: For what purpose does the thistle display its flower, according to t… — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: For what purpose does the thistle display its flower, according to the passage? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/999-pg27200-part210/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e4:1
# text = For what purpose does the thistle display its flower, according to the passage?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 adorn the grave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e4:o1:1
# text = To adorn the grave
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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To feed the bees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e4:o2:1
# text = To feed the bees
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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For beauty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e4:o3:1
# text = For beauty
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	beauty	beauty	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 catch the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e4:o4:1
# text = To catch the sun
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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