Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

Did the widow just hop on a wagon and bolt?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, hop · To what, where: widow, wagon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 widow	det
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 hop	advmod
5	hop	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wagon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wagon	det
8	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hop	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bolt	cc
10	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wagon	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the widow					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality
2	hop	present				a wagon and bolt			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wagon=Trajectory

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

Yeah, with her old maid, pulled by two black oxen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 maid	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 maid	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 maid	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 maid	amod
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pulled	punct
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 maid	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 oxen	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oxen	nummod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 oxen	amod
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		her old maid not said here				by two black oxen	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, with her cook, pulled by two grey horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cook	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cook	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cook	nmod:poss
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cook	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 horses	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 horses	nummod
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horses	amod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		her cook not said here				by two grey horses	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she walked with her son, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	she					with her son and mate	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, with her maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 maid	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 maid	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 maid	nmod:poss
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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