Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

Which phrase best describes the situation of the convent in the Moon's account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, Moon · What happens: describe, account · To what, where: situation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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

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 busy market town at the edge of the wide river valley

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

Option 2

a lonely convent of nuns perched on the edge of a quiet valley

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a lonely convent of nuns perched on the brow of the mountain

Option 4

a lonely convent of nuns perched on the brow of a steep mountain above the village

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