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title: What was the nature of the quantity contained in the bottle carried… — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the quantity contained in the bottle carried by the boy, as reported in the mayor's remarks? 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» o
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/843-pg27200-part54/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e2:1
# text = What was the nature of the quantity contained in the bottle carried by the boy, as reported in the mayor's remarks?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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half a quartern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e2:o1:1
# text = half a quartern
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quartern	quartern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e2:o2:1
# text = a dram
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dram	dram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a glass of beer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e2:o3:1
# text = a glass of beer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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some gin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e2:o4:1
# text = some gin
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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