Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

so who found her, like for real?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 real	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 neighbour who had been looking for her all afternoon along the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looking	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 neighbour	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 afternoon	det
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl:unmarked
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 lane	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lane	det
13	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Martha, with some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bread	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Martha	appos

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

Option 3

The mayor's messenger, who came back to the stream after the widow fell

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 messenger	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mayor	case
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 messenger	acl:relcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 widow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 widow	det
14	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the mayor's messenger			the stream	after the widow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
2	fall	past	the mayor's messenger						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Martha, bringing her coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bringing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Martha	punct
3	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coffee	nmod:poss
5	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bringing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	gerund	Martha	Martha's coffee					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme

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