Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…
wait so did the old maid see the bottle land??
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old maid · What happens: wait, see · To what, where: bottle land
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maid | amod |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 land | compound |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · do-support | the old maid | the bottle land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
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
nah, she saw the rabbit fall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fall | det |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | compound |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | the rabbit fall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus |
Option 2
no, she was blind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 blind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blind | cop |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | blind property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nah, she only saw the balloon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 balloon | det |
| 7 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | the balloon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer balloon=Stimulus |
Option 4
yes, she saw it fall down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 fall | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall down | infinitive | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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