Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…
To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest sparrow · What happens: do, resolve, travel
This is exam question 3 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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 city | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sparrow | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 sparrow | amod |
| 7 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resolve | nsubj |
| 8 | resolve | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolve | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | to which city | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | resolve | present | the eldest sparrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | the eldest sparrow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and its harbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copenhagen | copenhagen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copenhagen | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Denmark | case |
| 6 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 harbour | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 harbour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copenhagen | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Copenhagen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copenhagen | copenhagen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Stockholm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stockholm | stockholm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Copenhagen, the great city by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copenhagen | copenhagen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copenhagen | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copenhagen | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/e3/