Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

In what location did the impoverished bottle neck reside, relative to the street?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: impoverished bottle neck · What happens: impoverish, reside, relative

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 reside	obl
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reside	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neck	det
6	impoverished	impoverish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 neck	amod
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 neck	compound
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reside	nsubj
9	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 relative	punct
11	relative	relative	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reside	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 street	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 relative	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 reside	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	impoverish	participle			tree rules
2	reside	past · do-support	the impoverished bottle neck		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in what=Location
3	relative	infinitive	the impoverished bottle neck not said here	to the street	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

In a poor room at the back of a damp house far from the street

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 room	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 street	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod

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

Option 2

In a cramped garret at the top of a tall house above the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 garret	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garret	det
3	cramped	cramped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garret	amod
4	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 garret	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 street	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod

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

Option 3

In a cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cellar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cellar	det
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In a garret, above the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 garret	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 garret	det
3	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 garret	punct
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 garret	nmod

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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