--- title: Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leav… — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leaves the mill and walks home along the mountain path? Exam question 1 of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/861-pg27200-part72/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/861-pg27200-part72/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous… Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leaves the mill and walks home along the mountain path? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Babette, character · **What happens:** reject, leave, walk · **To what, where:** character, window, mill, mountain path This is exam question 1 of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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/861-pg27200-part72/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:861-pg27200-part72:e1:1 # text = Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leaves the mill and walks home along the mountain path? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reject** | gerund · perfect · passive | Babette | which character *not said here* | | the window | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | present | which character | the mill | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | present | which character *not said here* | | | the mountain path | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | 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 {#o1} Miller ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:861-pg27200-part72:e1:o1:1 # text = Miller 1 Miller Miller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Rudy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:861-pg27200-part72:e1:o2:1 # text = Rudy 1 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Babette ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:861-pg27200-part72:e1:o3:1 # text = Babette 1 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Englishman in white ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:861-pg27200-part72:e1:o4:1 # text = The Englishman in white 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Englishman Englishman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 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. 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