Exam question 4 · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

Which direction does Knud take when he leaves the village at the end of this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: direction, Knud · What happens: take, leave · To what, where: village, end

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 direction	det
2	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 leaves	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaves	nsubj
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 part	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	which direction						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	Knud	the village			at the end of this part		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent village=Theme at end=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 home	advmod
2	home	home	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Northward, toward the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northward	northward	ADV	_	5 mountains	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Northward	punct
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountains	det
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Westward, along the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Westward	westward	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Westward	punct
3	along	along	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Westward	obl

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

Option 4

Eastward, toward the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eastward	Eastward	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lake	punct
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eastward	appos

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

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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