Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

did the doctor save her or was she cooked already?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: save, cook · To what, where: her, doctor

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	nsubj
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 save	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 cooked	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cooked	aux:pass
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cooked	nsubj
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 save	conj
10	already	already	ADV	_	9 cooked	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support	the doctor	her = she					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	cook	past · passive		doctor					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was already dead, too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 late	advmod
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					dead property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

Option 2

She was alive but very weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 alive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 alive	cop
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 weak	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					alive property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

Option 3

The surgeon saved her life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 surgeon	det
2	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	nsubj
3	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	the surgeon	surgeon's life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 4

She died later that night, after the surgeon had tried many remedies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 died	advmod
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 tried	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 surgeon	det
9	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	aux
11	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 died	advcl
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 remedies	amod
13	remedies	remedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	She				night	late property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	try	past · perfect · passive		the surgeon					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer remedy=Result

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