Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…
was the hostess's place cosy or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: place
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hostess | det |
| 3 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hostess | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cosy | csubj |
| 6 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cosy | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cosy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the hostess's place | tree rules |
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 · ← Mova's choice
a crowded smoky public-house full of sailors and drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 2 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 3 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 public | punct |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sailors | case |
| 9 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailors | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a grand, quiet hall with a fire and a polished table for guests
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hall | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hall | amod |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 table | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 11 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 table | amod |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fire | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 guests | case |
| 14 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 table | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a clean quiet tavern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tavern | det |
| 2 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tavern | amod |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tavern | amod |
| 4 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a crowded smoky public-house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 2 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 3 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 public | punct |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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