Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

Did he finally find the bridge or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: find · To what, where: bridge

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 837 «Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48: a lost counsellor wanders strange old streets and thinks he is ill» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 find	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	he	the bridge				finally property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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

Yes, it was right where he left it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 left	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					right property	tree rules
2	leave	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it was gone, no bridge at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bridge	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 bridge	det
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			all		no bridge obl; gone property	tree rules

Option 3

Nope, but he found a different bridge a long way off near the palace and the old wall.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridge	amod
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	ccomp
12	off	off	ADV	_	15 palace	advmod
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wall	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wall	amod
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	a different bridge					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he found the bridge after a long walk past the church and the quay, though it looked odd.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 walk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 walk	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walk	amod
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
11	past	past	ADP	_	13 church	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 church	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 quay	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 quay	det
16	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 church	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 looked	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
21	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looked	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	the bridge			after a long walk past the church and the quay		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Topic
2	look	past	bridge					odd property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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