Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

Which individual was the first to acquire the bottle at the commencement of this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: individual · What happens: be, acquire · To what, where: bottle, commencement

This is exam question 1 of lesson 805 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new owner, a sailor's farewell, and a foreign shore» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 acquire	mark
7	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 commencement	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 commencement	det
12	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 commencement	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which individual					first property	tree rules
2	acquire	to-infinitive		the bottle		the commencement of this passage			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bottle=Theme

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 young sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sailor	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailor	amod
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the furrier's apprentice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 furrier	det
2	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apprentice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 furrier	case
4	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the old furrier's apprentice and his friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 furrier	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 furrier	amod
3	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apprentice	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 furrier	case
5	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 friend	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apprentice	conj

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

Option 4

the furrier's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 furrier	det
2	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 furrier	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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