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title: By which conveyance did Rudy travel between the two cantons? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: By which conveyance did Rudy travel between the two cantons? Exam question 4 of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

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By which conveyance did Rudy travel between the two cantons?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** travel

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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/858-pg27200-part69/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:e4:1
# text = By which conveyance did Rudy travel between the two cantons?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cantons	canton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past · do-support | Rudy |  |  |  |  | by which conveyance; between the two cantons | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by conveyance=Trajectory |

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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 sleigh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:e4:o1:1
# text = a sleigh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the omnibus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:e4:o2:1
# text = the omnibus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	omnibus	omnibus	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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the cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:e4:o3:1
# text = the cart
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	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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a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:e4:o4:1
# text = a horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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