--- title: To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics description: To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel? Exam question 3 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/e3/) [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 Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their… To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eldest sparrow · **What happens:** do, resolve, travel This is exam question 3 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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/911-pg27200-part122/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e3:1 # text = To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel? 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 resolve resolve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | to which city | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **resolve** | present | the eldest sparrow | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | the eldest sparrow *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and its harbour ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e3:o1:1 # text = Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and its harbour 1 Copenhagen copenhagen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Denmark Denmark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Copenhagen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e3:o2:1 # text = Copenhagen 1 Copenhagen copenhagen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Stockholm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e3:o3:1 # text = Stockholm 1 Stockholm stockholm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Copenhagen, the great city by the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e3:o4:1 # text = Copenhagen, the great city by the sea 1 Copenhagen copenhagen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 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 1 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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