Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…

For what duration did the bottle remain concealed within the loft prior to its rebuilding of the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: duration · What happens: do, conceal, rebuild · To what, where: bottle, house

This is exam question 4 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 concealed	obl
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 concealed	aux
8	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	within	within	ADP	_	11 loft	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loft	det
11	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	obl
12	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 rebuilding	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 prior	fixed
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rebuilding	nmod:poss
15	rebuilding	rebuilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rebuilding	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 concealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	duration	the bottle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Eventuality
2	conceal	present			within the loft; prior duration's rebuilding of the house	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rebuild		duration	the house		nom rebuilding «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 right answer

Twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Twenty years, until the house was rebuilt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rebuilt	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rebuilt	punct
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 rebuilt	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rebuilt	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rebuilt	aux:pass
8	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rebuild	past · passive		the house			year		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

Nineteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About a decade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 decade	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 decade	det
3	decade	decade	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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