Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

Mate, whose galoshes were chilling by the door?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: chill

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 galoshes	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 galoshes	nmod:poss
4	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mate	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chilling	aux
6	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	Mate and Mate and Mate's galoshes's galoshes					by the door	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Some watchman who lives next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 watchman	det
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 watchman	acl:relcl
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some watchman	next door					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme door=Location

Option 2

Some lieutenant who lives over the way, the one who never rings his bell after midnight

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lieutenant	det
2	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lieutenant	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rings	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 rings	advmod
13	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bell	nmod:poss
15	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	obj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 midnight	case
17	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some lieutenant			the way			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over way=Location
2	not ring	present	the one	lieutenant's bell			midnight		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Option 3

Some guest from the party, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 party	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 guest	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	some guest from the party						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some lieutenant who lives over the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lieutenant	det
2	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lieutenant	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some lieutenant			the way			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over way=Location

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