Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

lowkey tragic, where did the bottle land after he tossed it, in the reeds?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey tragic, tragic · What happens: do, toss · To what, where: bottle land, land, reeds

This is test 9 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tragic	compound
2	tragic	tragic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	compound
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 tossed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tossed	nsubj
11	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tossed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reeds	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 reeds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reeds	det
16	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tossed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey tragic	the bottle land					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality
2	toss	past	tragic	land		the reeds			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in reed=Destination

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

beside a stone bridge over a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	compound
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	nmod

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

Option 2

under an oak by the village road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 oak	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oak	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 road	compound
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 oak	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

among the rushes by a woodland lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	among	among	ADP	_	3 rushes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rushes	det
3	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 lake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lake	det
6	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lake	compound
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush		a woodland lake						nom rush «act transitive»: by=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

among the reeds by a quiet woodland lake at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	among	among	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reeds	det
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 lake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
7	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lake	compound
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reeds	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dusk	case
10	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lake	nmod

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

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