Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

wait, was the old lady giving him water from the well or the sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old lady · What happens: wait, be, give · To what, where: old lady, water, him, well

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 277 «Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wanders old Copenhagen and is taken for a foreigner» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lady	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lady	acl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 giving	iobj
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giving	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 well	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giving	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 sea	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 well	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the old lady			tree rules
3	give	gerund	the old lady not said here	water	him = he	the well or the sea	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=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

Option 1

from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

from the well, though it was salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 salt	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 salt	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 salt	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 salt	cop
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 well	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	salt					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

from the well, but it tasted like the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tasted	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tasted	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tasted	nsubj
7	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	well			the well		like the sea	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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