Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

was the brother's money left for the boy or the widow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: money

This is test 7 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 money	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 brother	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 money	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl:agent
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 widow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 widow	det
12	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 money	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the brother's money					tree rules
2	leave	participle		the brother's money not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

For the widow, six hundred dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 widow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 widow	det
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dollars	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dollars	nummod
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 widow	appos

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

Option 2

For the boy, six hundred dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 boy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dollars	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dollars	nummod
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boy	appos

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

Option 3

The money was for the widow's son, who would receive it after her death

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 son	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 son	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 widow	det
6	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 widow	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 receive	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 receive	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 receive	aux
12	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 son	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 receive	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 death	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 death	nmod:poss
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the money			for the widow's son	tree rules
2	receive	would	the widow's son	money	after widow's death		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	die		widow				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

For the widow, to be paid to her in secret by the mayor's own clerk

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 widow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 widow	det
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	7 paid	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 paid	aux:pass
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 widow	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 secret	case
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	17 clerk	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mayor	det
14	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clerk	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mayor	case
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clerk	amod
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive · passive	the mayor's own clerk		widow	secret			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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