Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

What object did the rocket apparatus discharge in order to effect the rescue of the crew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, rescue · To what, where: apparatus discharge, effect, crew

This is exam question 2 of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 discharge	det
5	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apparatus	compound
6	apparatus	apparatus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discharge	compound
7	discharge	discharge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 effect	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 in	fixed
10	to	to	PART	_	11 effect	mark
11	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rescue	det
13	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 effect	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 crew	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crew	det
16	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rescue	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the apparatus discharge		effect			tree rules
2	rescue			the crew					nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient

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 chain forming a bridge over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chain	det
2	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	nsubj
3	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	obj
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 forming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form over	gerund	a chain	a bridge				over property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bridge=Theme

Option 2

A plank forming a path ashore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plank	det
2	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	nsubj
3	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	obj
6	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	3 forming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	gerund	a plank	a path				ashore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme

Option 3

A thick rope that made a bridge from the stranded ship to land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rope	amod
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rope	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 ship	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
10	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ship	amod
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 land	mark
13	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	a thick rope	a bridge	the stranded ship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product from ship=Material
2	strand	participle				tree rules
3	land	to-infinitive	a thick rope not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A rope forming a bridge to land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	nsubj
3	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forming	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 land	mark
7	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forming	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	gerund	a rope	a bridge					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bridge=Theme
2	land	to-infinitive	a rope not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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