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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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According to the narrative, in which compass direction did the first traveller's vessel proceed upon departure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** compass direction · **What happens:** accord, do, proceed · **To what, where:** vessel

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e2:1
# text = According to the narrative, in which compass direction did the first traveller's vessel proceed upon departure?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	proceed	proceed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | compass direction | the first traveller's vessel |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Eventuality |
| 3 | **proceed** | present |  |  |  |  |  | accord the narrative; upon departure | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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north-east along the rocky coast of the island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e2:o1:1
# text = north-east along the rocky coast of the island
1	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e2:o2:1
# text = south
1	south	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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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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north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e2:o3:1
# text = north
1	north	north	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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toward the northern shore of the distant lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e2:o4:1
# text = toward the northern shore of the distant lake
1	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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