Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

sus little boys in the reeds hauling the bottle home, who were they

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reeds, sus little boys · What happens: haul, be · To what, where: bottle

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 reeds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reeds	det
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boys	nmod
7	hauling	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 reeds	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hauling	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	7 hauling	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 were	nsubj
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	gerund	the reeds not said here	the bottle				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
2	be	past	sus little boys in the reeds						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

three farm workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 workers	nummod
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 workers	compound
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

two village girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girls	nummod
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girls	compound
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

two peasant boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boys	nummod
2	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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