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title: Which city did Knud select as the place in which he resolved his inn… — Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which city did Knud select as the place in which he resolved his inner conflict and settled? Exam question 3 of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…

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Which city did Knud select as the place in which he resolved his inner conflict and settled?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** city, Knud · **What happens:** select, resolve, settle, conflict · **To what, where:** inner conflict, place

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1016-pg27200-part227/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:e3:1
# text = Which city did Knud select as the place in which he resolved his inner conflict and settled?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · do-support | which city |  |  |  |  | as the place | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as place=Attribute |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | Knud | Knud's inner conflict |  | the place |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | participle | Knud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **conflict** |  | Knud |  |  |  |  |  | nom conflict «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Frankfurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:e3:o1:1
# text = Frankfurt
1	Frankfurt	frankfurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old town of Heidelberg by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:e3:o2:1
# text = The old town of Heidelberg by the river
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Heidelberg	Heidelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nuremberg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:e3:o3:1
# text = Nuremberg
1	Nuremberg	Nuremberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The large city of Hamburg by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:e3:o4:1
# text = The large city of Hamburg by the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hamburg	Hamburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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