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

lol the bottle thought it would learn the language up there

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bottle · What happens: think, learn · To what, where: language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 learn	aux
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 language	det
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learn	obj
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 learn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the bottle						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	learn	would	bottle	the language					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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

nope, you cannot learn it in a loft because there is nobody to talk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 loft	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loft	det
10	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 is	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	advcl
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 is	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nobody	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not learn	can	you	it	a loft	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	be	present	nobody		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

nope, you cannot learn it in a loft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 loft	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loft	det
10	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	you	it		a loft			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

nope, it just sat there all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it			there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, it learnt a lot from the cobwebs and the old rafters up there

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 learnt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 learnt	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learnt	nsubj
4	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learnt	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 cobwebs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cobwebs	det
9	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learnt	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rafters	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rafters	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rafters	amod
13	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cobwebs	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 learnt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	it	a lot		the cobwebs and the old rafters; there			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Topic from cobweb=Source

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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