Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

Identify the location to which the swallow conveyed Tiny upon her departure from the cornfield.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, swallow · What happens: identify, convey, depart · To what, where: location, cornfield

This is exam question 2 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 conveyed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swallow	det
7	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	nsubj
8	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 location	acl:relcl
9	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 conveyed	xcomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 departure	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 departure	nmod:poss
12	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 cornfield	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cornfield	det
15	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	convey	past	the swallow		the cornfield	to the location; upon swallow's departure; tiny property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to which=Destination from cornfield=Initial_Location
3	depart		swallow				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

a warm island nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 island	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 island	advmod

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

Option 2

the distant sunny countries far to the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countries	det
2	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 countries	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 south	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 south	det
8	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 far	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the warm countries

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	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the cold north lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lands	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lands	amod
3	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lands	amod
4	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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