Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

State the geographical location in which the vessel of the bottle ultimately arrived after its extended voyage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vessel · What happens: arrive, voyage · To what, where: geographical location

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 location	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 location	det
3	geographical	geographical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 location	amod
4	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 arrived	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bottle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vessel	nmod
12	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	13 arrived	advmod
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 location	acl:relcl
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 voyage	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 voyage	nmod:poss
16	extended	extended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voyage	amod
17	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 location	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the vessel of the bottle			the geographical location	after vessel's extended voyage	ultimately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	voyage		vessel						nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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

a far away foreign country on the other side of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 country	det
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	4 foreign	advmod
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 country	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a foreign country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 country	det
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 country	amod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

an unknown port town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
2	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
3	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 town	compound
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a strange island coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coast	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coast	amod
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coast	compound
4	coast	coast	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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