Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…

Which language did the bottle understand upon its return, and in what place had it previously heard it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: language, place, bottle · What happens: understand, have, hear, return · To what, where: bottle

This is exam question 3 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 language	det
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 return	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 return	nmod:poss
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	previously	previously	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past · do-support	which language		upon bottle's return	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	what place			tree rules
3	hear	past	place	bottle	previously property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	return		bottle			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The new language, heard in the town square and market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 language	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 language	amod
3	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 language	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 square	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 square	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 square	compound
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 market	cc
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 square	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle		the new language not said here		the town square and market			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The old language, at the furnaces and the wine merchant's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 language	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 language	amod
3	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 furnaces	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 furnaces	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 furnaces	det
7	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 language	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 merchant	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
10	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 merchant	compound
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 language	conj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 merchant	case

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

Option 3

The old language, heard on the balloon and in the loft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 language	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 language	amod
3	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 language	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 balloon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balloon	det
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loft	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 loft	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 loft	det
12	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balloon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle		the old language not said here		the balloon and the loft			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

French, at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 school	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 French	appos

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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