Test 15 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

bruh it ended up somewhere foreign and nobody could read the letter, what was the problem

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, nobody · What happens: end up, read, be · To what, where: letter, problem

This is test 15 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 ended	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 ended	compound:prt
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 foreign	advmod
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ended	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 read	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 read	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ended	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letter	det
12	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 problem	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 problem	obj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 problem	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 problem	det
17	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 letter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end up	past	it		foreign property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	read	could	nobody	the letter and the problem		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
3	is a	past	nobody not said here	the problem		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

They cannot understand the language of the country.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 language	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	can	They	the language of the country					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

Option 2

The ink had faded and no one there could read it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ink	det
2	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faded	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faded	aux
4	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 read	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	nsubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 one	advmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 faded	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 read	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 faded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	past · perfect	the ink						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	read	could	no one	ink					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

They cannot understand the language of the country, and the ink has faded far too much to read.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 language	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 faded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 faded	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ink	det
13	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faded	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 faded	aux
15	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 understand	parataxis
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 much	advmod
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 faded	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 read	mark
20	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 much	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not understand	can	They	the language of the country	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	fade	present · perfect	the ink	much	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	read	to-infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The writing was in a language nobody on that shore could read, and the paper was ruined by sea water.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 writing	det
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 language	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 language	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 language	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 read	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nobody	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 language	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ruined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ruined	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 paper	det
16	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ruined	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ruined	aux:pass
18	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 language	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 water	compound
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ruined	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 language	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the writing		a language	tree rules
2	read	could	nobody	a language not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic
3	ruin	past · passive	sea water	the paper		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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