Test 6 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

Who's the knight that nabs her in Franconia?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight · What happens: be, nab · To what, where: knight, her, Franconia

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knight	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knight	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 nabs	nsubj
6	nabs	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knight	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nabs	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Franconia	case
9	Franconia	Franconia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nabs	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the knight					tree rules
2	nab	present	the knight	her = she		Franconia			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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

Her own son, Jens Glob, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Jens	punct
5	Jens	Jens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
6	Glob	Glob	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Jens	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 son	discourse

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Her cousin's son, a stalwart knight who'd been looking for her for ages, innit

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cousin	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knight	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knight	det
7	stalwart	stalwart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knight	amod
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 looking	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 looking	aux
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 knight	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 ages	case
16	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect · progressive	a stalwart knight				for ages	for her = she	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

Option 3

Her brother, Olaf Hase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Olaf	punct
4	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brother	appos
5	Hase	Hase	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Olaf	flat

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

Option 4

Her own son, Jens Glob, who'd come from Denmark with twelve men, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Jens	punct
5	Jens	Jens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
6	Glob	Glob	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Jens	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Denmark	case
12	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 men	case
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 men	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Her own son			Denmark		with twelve men and innit	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from denmark=Initial_Location

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