Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…

Wait, who was at the door with the supper, the old lady?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: door

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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	_	7 door	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 door	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 door	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 supper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 supper	det
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	conj
15	?	?	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	is	past				the door and the old lady		with the supper	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 · ✓ the right answer

Eglantine thought it was the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Eglantine						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the old woman					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Eglantine thought the knock was from the old woman bringing supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knock	det
4	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 woman	acl
11	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bringing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Eglantine			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the knock		from the old woman	tree rules
3	bring	gerund	the old woman not said here	supper		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supper=Theme

Option 3

Eglantine assumed it was the prince, who had come back early from the hunt

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 assumed	nsubj
2	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prince	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assumed	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 prince	acl:relcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 early	advmod
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 come	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 hunt	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hunt	det
15	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assume	past	Eglantine				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the prince			tree rules
3	come back	past · perfect	the prince		the hunt	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunt=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yes, the old woman came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old woman						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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