Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Ngl, where did Babette's brooch come from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brooch · What happens: come

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 come	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
5	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brooch	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Babette	case
7	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 come	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	Babette's brooch						vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

from the old miller's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	6 wife	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 miller	amod
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a present from her father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 present	det
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 present	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

her godmother at her christening

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 godmother	nmod:poss
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 christening	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 christening	nmod:poss
5	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 godmother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	christen		her = she						nom christening «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

a gift from Rudy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Rudy	case
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod

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

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