Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

Who reckons it's an owl ringing the bell, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, owl · What happens: reckon, be, ring · To what, where: owl, bell

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 owl	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 owl	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 owl	det
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obl
7	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 owl	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bell	det
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ringing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	6 owl	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a owl	tree rules
3	ring	gerund	a owl not said here	the bell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a bloke who went furthest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furthest	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bloke	acl:relcl
5	furthest	furth	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a bloke						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the learned gentleman who had travelled across three kingdoms to study owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
2	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gentleman	amod
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 travelled	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 travelled	aux
6	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gentleman	acl:relcl
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 kingdoms	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 kingdoms	nummod
9	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 travelled	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 study	mark
11	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 travelled	advcl
12	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 study	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	travell	past · perfect	the learned gentleman		three kingdoms	tree rules
3	study	to-infinitive	the learned gentleman not said here	owls		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Topic

Option 3

the bloke who went furthest into the woods and came back with a feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bloke	acl:relcl
5	furthest	furthest	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 feather	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 feather	det
14	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the bloke			the woods		furthest property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	come back	past	the bloke					with a feather	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the king's old huntsman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 huntsman	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huntsman	amod
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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