Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

Identify the feature of the landscape upon which the king's son ascends in order to observe the setting sun.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, son · What happens: identify, ascend, observe, feature · To what, where: feature, order, setting sun., landscape

This is exam question 1 of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feature	det
3	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 landscape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 landscape	det
6	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feature	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ascends	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ascends	nsubj
13	ascends	ascend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 landscape	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 order	case
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ascends	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 observe	mark
17	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ascends	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun.	det
19	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sun.	compound
20	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 observe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the feature of the landscape			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feature=Theme
2	ascend	present	the king's son		order	upon the landscape	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	observe	to-infinitive	the king's son not said here	the setting sun.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sun.=Topic
4	feature			the landscape			nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

the high rocks beside the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rocks	amod
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rocks	nmod

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

Option 2

the high rocky cliffs beside the dark wood at the edge of town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cliffs	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cliffs	amod
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cliffs	amod
4	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cliffs	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod

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

Option 3

the steep cliffs beside the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cliffs	det
2	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cliffs	amod
3	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cliffs	nmod

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

Option 4

the tall stone tower beside the wide river and the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tower	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tower	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	compound
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mill	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mill	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mill	amod
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 river	conj

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

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