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My instinct is to call the out on the force play.
I'm basing this on my reading of the description that, to me, sounds like the runner made a poor slide and touched the plate (too late) on her initial effort, before completely passing it (ie: this never reached the point of becoming a missed base appeal play).
I suppose this might hinge on a definition of what constitutes the runner being "past" the base. Absent a definition, I would offer the analogy of how a runner is defined as being "past" another runner on the basepaths.
From R/S #39: "To pass a runner, the trail runner must pass the entire body of the lead runner, not just an arm or leg ahead of the trail runner."
Derived from that definition of "to pass": To pass a base, the runner's entire body must pass the base, not just an arm or leg ahead of the base.
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