Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…
Which object, having been thrown from the balloon, struck a roof and was reduced to fragments, the neck alone remaining intact?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, neck · What happens: throw, strike, reduce, remain · To what, where: object, balloon, roof, fragments
This is exam question 1 of lesson 806 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in a loft, sent up in a balloon, and smashes, but its neck survives» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thrown | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thrown | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 thrown | aux:pass |
| 6 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 object | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 balloon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 balloon | det |
| 9 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 object | punct |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reduced | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reduced | aux:pass |
| 16 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 struck | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 fragments | case |
| 18 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reduced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 neck | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 neck | det |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | parataxis |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 neck | advmod |
| 23 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 neck | acl |
| 24 | intact | intact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 remaining | xcomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund · perfect · passive | which object not said here | the balloon | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from balloon=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | which object | a roof | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reduce | past · passive | which object not said here | to fragments goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: to fragment=Goal | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | the neck not said here | intact property | 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
The rabbit that rode in the basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 basket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the rabbit | the basket | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 neck | det |
| 2 | neck | neck | 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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