Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

Bro, what's the bottle neck doing in the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, bottle neck · What happens: be, do · To what, where: bottle neck, window

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	7 neck	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 neck	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 neck	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neck	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 neck	compound
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 neck	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the bottle neck					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the bottle neck not said here			the window			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Chilling in a bird-cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 cage	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cage	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cage	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				a bird cage			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Resting in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund				the sun			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

Option 3

Sitting on a sill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 sill	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sill	det
4	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				a sill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sill=Location

Option 4

Chilling in a bird-cage hanging by the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 cage	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cage	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cage	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl
7	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chilling	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				a bird cage			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	hang	gerund						by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location

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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