Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…

that neck is a sick glass for a bird, no cap

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: neck · What happens: be · To what, where: sick glass

This is test 8 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 neck	det
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glass	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glass	det
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glass	amod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that neck	a sick glass				for a bird	tree rules

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

yeah, the cellar-man said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 cellar	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cellar man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, the cellar-man said so, and he wanted it for a bird's glass

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 cellar	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 glass	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glass	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 bird	case
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cellar man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	man	it				for a bird's glass	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

nah, the maid said it was ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ugly	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ugly	cop
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the maid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	maid					ugly property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, the cellar-man never said anything about it to anyone at all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 cellar	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 anything	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	the cellar man	anything	anyone			about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to anyone=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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