Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…
Wait, the bottle's got no cork?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bottle · What happens: wait, get · To what, where: cork
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 cork | det |
| 8 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present · passive | the bottle | no cork | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cork=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, it's open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 open | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | open property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, a plug is missing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 missing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plug | det |
| 4 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 missing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 missing | cop |
| 6 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a plug | missing property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, a cork is stuck in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cork | det |
| 4 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | cop |
| 6 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a cork | it | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, the top was broken off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 broken | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 broken | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past · passive | the top | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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