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title: Identify the location to which the swallow conveyed Tiny upon her de… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the location to which the swallow conveyed Tiny upon her departure from the cornfield. Exam question 2 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» of the books course of Mova
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

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Identify the location to which the swallow conveyed Tiny upon her departure from the cornfield.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, swallow · **What happens:** identify, convey, depart · **To what, where:** location, cornfield

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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/884-pg27200-part95/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e2:1
# text = Identify the location to which the swallow conveyed Tiny upon her departure from the cornfield.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | past | the swallow |  |  | the cornfield |  | to the location; upon swallow's departure; tiny *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to which=Destination from cornfield=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **depart** |  | swallow |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «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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a warm island nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e2:o1:1
# text = a warm island nearby
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the distant sunny countries far to the south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e2:o2:1
# text = the distant sunny countries far to the south
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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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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the warm countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e2:o3:1
# text = the warm countries
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 cold north lands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e2:o4:1
# text = the cold north lands
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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