Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Who came over and found him, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come over, find · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	5 found	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come over	past						over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past		him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

a lass who came walking up the path from the village below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lass	det
2	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 walking	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
12	below	below	ADV	_	11 village	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a lass						tree rules
2	walk up	gerund	a lass not said here	the path		the village			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme from village=Trajectory

Option 2

a young lass who lived in the cottage down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lass	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lass	amod
3	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lass	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a young lass			the cottage		down the road	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a lass who lived near at hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lass	det
2	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lass	acl:relcl
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a lass			hand		near property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hand=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a girl who lived down the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 girl	acl:relcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lived	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lane	det
7	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live down	past	a girl	the lane					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lane=Location

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