Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

Which natural feature did the old woman indicate to Eliza as the location of the eleven swans?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: natural feature, old woman · What happens: do, indicate · To what, where: Eliza

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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	4 did	obj
2	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feature	amod
3	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 indicate	nsubj
8	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Eliza	case
10	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 indicate	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 location	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 location	det
13	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 swans	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swans	det
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 swans	nummod
17	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 location	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	natural feature					as the location of the eleven swans	tree rules
2	indicate	infinitive	the old woman		Eliza				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eliza=Experiencer

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

A dark forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 forest	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forest	amod
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A river close by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 river	amod
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 close	fixed

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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