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

wait, why did nobody read the note??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nobody · What happens: wait, do, read · To what, where: note

This is test 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 note	det
8	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	past	nobody	the note	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic

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 right answer

it was rubbed to nothing from handling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	aux:pass
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 rubbed	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 handling	case
7	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past · passive		it	nothing				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to nothing=Recipient

Option 2

the note was written in an old tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 written	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 written	aux:pass
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tongue	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tongue	amod
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		the note		a old tongue			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tongue=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it was rubbed to nothing from handling by the cellar man who kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	aux:pass
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 rubbed	obl
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 handling	mark
7	handling	handle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rubbed	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handling	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rub	past · passive		it	nothing		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to nothing=Recipient
2	handle	gerund				by the cellar man	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	the cellar man	it			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

it was rubbed to nothing from handling in the washing and the seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	aux:pass
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 rubbed	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 handling	case
7	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 washing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 washing	det
10	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seeds	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seeds	det
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past · passive		it	nothing				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to nothing=Recipient

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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