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title: Which natural feature did the old woman indicate to Eliza as the loc… — Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which natural feature did the old woman indicate to Eliza as the location of the eleven swans? Exam question 3 of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

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Which natural feature did the old woman indicate to Eliza as the location of the eleven swans?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** natural feature, old woman · **What happens:** do, indicate · **To what, where:** Eliza

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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/1021-pg27200-part232/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:e3:1
# text = Which natural feature did the old woman indicate to Eliza as the location of the eleven swans?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | natural feature |  |  |  |  | as the location of the eleven swans | tree rules |
| 2 | **indicate** | infinitive | the old woman |  | Eliza |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eliza=Experiencer |

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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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A dark forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:e3:o1:1
# text = A dark forest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forest	forest	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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A hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:e3:o2:1
# text = A hill
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:e3:o3:1
# text = A lake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A river close by

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:e3:o4:1
# text = A river close by
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
```

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

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