Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

State the geographical location in which the second narrative of this extract is situated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: situate · To what, where: second narrative, geographical location

This is exam question 3 of lesson 802 «Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the singer wakes the king's spirit, the Bird of Song flies out, and we arrive at Borglum» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 location	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 location	det
3	geographical	geographical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 location	amod
4	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 situated	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrative	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 narrative	amod
9	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 situated	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 extract	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 extract	det
12	extract	extract	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 narrative	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 situated	aux:pass
14	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 location	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 location	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	situate	present · passive		the second narrative of this extract		the geographical location			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination

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

Eastern Germany, beside the old river port.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Germany	amod
2	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 port	punct
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 port	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 port	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 port	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 port	compound
8	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Germany	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Germany	punct

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

Option 2

Northern Jutland.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Jutland	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Northern Jutland, upon the so-called wild moor.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moor	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 moor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moor	det
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 called	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 so	punct
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 moor	acl
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moor	amod
10	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jutland	appos
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Jutland	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the wild moor not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Northern Jutland, upon the so-called wild moor beside the convent and the sea.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moor	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 moor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moor	det
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 called	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 so	punct
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 moor	acl
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moor	amod
10	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jutland	appos
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 convent	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 convent	det
13	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moor	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sea	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 convent	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Jutland	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the wild moor beside the convent and the sea not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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