Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

What was the nature of the quantity contained in the bottle carried by the boy, as reported in the mayor's remarks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, mayor · What happens: be, contain, carry, report, remark · To what, where: quantity, bottle, remarks

This is exam question 2 of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 quantity	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 quantity	det
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 quantity	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bottle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contained	obl
12	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bottle	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reported	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 reported	mark
18	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 carried	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 remarks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mayor	det
21	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remarks	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 mayor	case
23	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reported	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the quantity			tree rules
2	contain	participle		the quantity not said here	the bottle	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottle=Location
3	carry	participle		the bottle not said here		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	report	participle			the mayor's remarks	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	remark		the mayor			nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

half a quartern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 quartern	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quartern	det
3	quartern	quartern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a dram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dram	det
2	dram	dram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a glass of beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 beer	case
4	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

some gin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gin	det
2	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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