Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

To which region of Switzerland does the uncle's dwelling belong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, belong · To what, where: dwelling

This is exam question 2 of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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 region	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Switzerland	case
5	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 region	nmod
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 uncle	det
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelling	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 uncle	case
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj
11	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 does	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the uncle's dwelling				to which region of Switzerland	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwelling=Eventuality
2	belong	present							vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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 mountainous canton of Graubünden in the east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 canton	det
2	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 canton	amod
3	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Graubünden	case
5	Graubünden	Graubünden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 canton	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 east	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 east	det
8	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 canton	nmod

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

Option 2

the canton Glarus, far to the north over the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Glarus	det
2	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Glarus	nmod:desc
3	Glarus	Glarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 north	punct
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 north	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 north	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 north	det
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Glarus	appos
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 north	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the canton Valais

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canton	det
2	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Valais	Valais	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 canton	appos

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

Option 4

the canton Ticino

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canton	det
2	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Ticino	Ticino	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 canton	appos

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

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