Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

In what region of Denmark is the great moorland described in the tale situated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, describe, situate · To what, where: great moorland, region, tale

This is exam question 2 of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	_	3 region	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moorland	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Denmark	case
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 region	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 moorland	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moorland	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moorland	amod
9	moorland	moorland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 moorland	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
14	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tale	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 moorland	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the great moorland	what region of Denmark	tree rules
2	describe	participle	the great moorland not said here	the tale	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	situate	participle	the tale not said here		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=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

north of Jutland by the Lumfjorden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	north	north	ADV	_	3 Jutland	compound
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Jutland	case
3	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Lumfjorden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lumfjorden	det
6	Lumfjorden	Lumfjorden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jutland	nmod

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

Option 2

Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

west Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	west	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 west	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

north Jutland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	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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