Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Which of the following accurately states the distance between the town of Kjoge and the city of Copenhagen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state · To what, where: distance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distance	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Kjoge	case
13	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 town	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 city	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distance	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Copenhagen	case
18	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 city	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the distance and the city of Copenhagen				between the town of Kjoge; accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent distance=Topic

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The town is not five miles from the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miles	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 miles	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 five	advmod
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the town	five miles		the city			tree rules

Option 2

It is far.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 far	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 far	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 far	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					far property	tree rules

Option 3

The town is about twenty miles from the city.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miles	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 miles	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 twenty	advmod
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miles	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 miles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the town	twenty miles		the city			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ten miles away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	obl:unmarked
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 away	punct

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

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