Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

did he come out of East Gate or a side-door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: come out · To what, where: East Gate

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 Gate	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Gate	case
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Gate	compound
7	Gate	Gate	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 door	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 door	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 side	punct
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Gate	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past · do-support	he	East Gate or a side door					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient gate=Result

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 wooden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gate	amod
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a little side-door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 side	punct
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

from the side-door of the old church beside the canal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	5 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 side	punct
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 church	amod
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 canal	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 canal	det
12	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 church	nmod

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

Option 4

through the broken scaffolding at East Gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	4 scaffolding	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scaffolding	det
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scaffolding	amod
4	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 East	case
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scaffolding	nmod
7	Gate	Gate	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 East	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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