Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…

Of what did the cellar-man propose the surviving neck might be made into a useful article?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cellar man · What happens: propose, make · To what, where: surviving neck, useful article

This is exam question 2 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 propose	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 propose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cellar	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propose	nsubj
8	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neck	det
10	surviving	surviving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 neck	amod
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propose	obj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 neck	acl:relcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 article	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 article	det
17	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 article	amod
18	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propose	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the cellar man	the surviving neck		a useful article			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
2	make	might · passive		the surviving neck not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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

A lantern for the garden to hang from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lantern	det
2	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lantern	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hang	mark
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lantern	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	to-infinitive				the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A bird's glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glass	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A bird's bowl kept in the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bowl	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		a bird's bowl not said here		the cellar			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location

Option 4

A bird's bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bath	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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