Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

To which structure did the Dryad withdraw upon departing the Boulevards?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dryad · What happens: do, withdraw, depart · To what, where: Boulevards

This is exam question 1 of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 structure	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 structure	det
3	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dryad	det
6	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 withdraw	nsubj
7	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 departing	mark
9	departing	depart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 withdraw	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Boulevards	det
11	Boulevards	boulevard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 departing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			to which structure	tree rules
2	withdraw	present	the Dryad			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	depart	gerund	the Dryad not said here	the Boulevards		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boulevard=Initial_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

To the Church of Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 Church	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Church	det
3	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Notre	case
5	Notre	Notre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Church	nmod
6	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Notre	flat
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Île	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Île	det
9	Île	Île	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Church	conj
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 Île	flat:foreign
11	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	12 Cité	compound
12	Cité	Cité	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Church	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Back to the tree in the gardens beside the Seine river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	4 tree	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 gardens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gardens	det
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tree	nmod
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	Seine	Seine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 river	compound
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gardens	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To the Church of the Madeleine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 Church	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Church	det
3	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Madeleine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Madeleine	det
6	Madeleine	Madeleine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Church	nmod

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

Option 4

To the Opera House at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 House	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 House	det
3	Opera	Opera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 House	compound
4	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 House	nmod

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

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