Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

In the concluding passage, what is the eventual destination of the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: concluding passage · What happens: be · To what, where: eventual destination

This is exam question 4 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
3	concluding	concluding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passage	compound
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 destination	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 destination	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 destination	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 destination	det
9	eventual	eventual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 destination	amod
10	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passage	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 youth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 destination	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the concluding passage and the eventual destination	the eventual destination				of the youth	tree rules

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 islands where sugar is made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 islands	det
2	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 made	advmod
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the islands					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

the places where tea is grown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 places	det
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grown	obl
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 grown	advmod
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grown	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux:pass
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · passive		tea				the places obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the countries where coffee grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 countries	det
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 grows	advmod
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 countries	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	coffee						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the far countries where the cocoa and spices grow in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 countries	det
2	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 grow	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cocoa	det
6	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spices	cc
8	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cocoa	conj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the cocoa and spices	the far countries		the sun			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

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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