Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

Bro, what is that red shiny thing near the bishop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: red shiny thing, bishop

This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thing	mark
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 bishop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bishop	det
11	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	red shiny thing		the bishop			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 · ✓ the right answer

His blood on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 blood	nmod:poss
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blood	nmod

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

Option 2

A shiny red cardinal's hat that fell from his head onto the church floor

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cardinal	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cardinal	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cardinal	amod
4	cardinal	cardinal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cardinal	case
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hat	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floor	compound
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a shiny red cardinal's hat			his head		onto the church floor	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location onto floor=Destination

Option 3

A bloody puddle spreading from the cloven skull on the stone floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puddle	det
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puddle	amod
3	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 puddle	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 skull	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skull	det
7	cloven	cloven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skull	amod
8	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreading	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund	a bloody puddle not said here			the cloven skull		on the stone floor	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

Option 4

Red wine spilled there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wine	amod
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wine	acl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spilled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle		Red wine not said here		there			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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