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

Wait, what's the bottle in the boy's pocket, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: bottle, pocket

This is test 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. 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	_	6 bottle	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bottle	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bottle	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 pocket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pocket	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 boy	case
11	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the bottle	the boy's pocket	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here			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

a whole quartern of strong spirits that the boy had stolen from the mayor's cellar

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quartern	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quartern	amod
3	quartern	quartern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 spirits	case
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spirits	amod
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quartern	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stolen	nsubj:pass
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stolen	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stolen	aux
11	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spirits	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 cellar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mayor	det
14	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cellar	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mayor	case
16	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		strong spirits		the mayor's cellar			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from cellar=Source

Option 2

a quartern of strong ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quartern	det
2	quartern	quartern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ale	case
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ale	amod
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quartern	nmod

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

Option 3

half a quartern of spirits, drunk down before the walk home from the river

The tree, 14 words

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
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spirits	case
5	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quartern	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drunk	punct
7	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quartern	acl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 drunk	compound:prt
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 walk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walk	det
11	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drunk	obl
12	home	home	ADV	_	7 drunk	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drunk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink down	participle		half quartern of spirits not said here		the river	before the walk	home property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

half a quartern of spirits

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
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spirits	case
5	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quartern	nmod

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

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