Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…
bro the bottle just sat in the attic for like twenty years??
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sit · To what, where: attic
This is test 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. 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | vocative |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 attic | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 attic | det |
| 8 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | obl |
| 13 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the attic | year | bro the bottle vocative | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in attic=Location |
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
nah, it was actually in a cupboard downstairs the whole time, dusty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 cupboard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cupboard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cupboard | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 cupboard | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cupboard | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cupboard | det |
| 8 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 12 time | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cupboard | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dusty | punct |
| 14 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cupboard | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | a cupboard | time | actually property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, it was cold and quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quiet | cc |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yep, dusty and full of cobwebs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 dusty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 full | cc |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dusty | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cobwebs | case |
| 7 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yep, dusty and full of cobwebs and old broken chairs all around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 dusty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 full | cc |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dusty | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cobwebs | case |
| 7 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chairs | cc |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chairs | amod |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 chairs | amod |
| 11 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cobwebs | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 around | advmod |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 dusty | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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