Exam question 1 · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…

With reference to the passage, what consequence attended each utterance of the discourteous elder daughter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: consequence, attend, utter · To what, where: utterance, discourteous elder daughter

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1079 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl's words turn to toads, and Blue Beard finds blood on the key» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attended	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 consequence	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 consequence	nsubj
8	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
9	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 utterance	det
11	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attended	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 daughter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 daughter	det
14	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daughter	amod
15	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	compound
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 utterance	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 attended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consequence		the passage and consequence			tree rules
2	attend	past		each utterance of the discourteous elder daughter	with reference to the passage and consequence	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme utterance=Goal
3	utter			the discourteous elder daughter		nom utterance «communication transitive»: of=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

Serpents, toads and small hissing creatures issued from her mouth, each time she spoke to the company at the feast

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spoke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 toads	punct
3	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Serpents	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 creatures	cc
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
6	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 creatures	compound
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Serpents	conj
8	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 creatures	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 issued	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoke	obl:unmarked
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoke	nsubj
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 company	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 company	det
19	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoke	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 feast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 feast	det
22	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		small hissing creatures not said here		her mouth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Serpents and toads and small hissing creatures			the feast	time	to the company	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to company=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Serpents and toads issued from her mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 toads	cc
3	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Serpents	conj
4	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Serpents	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 issued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		Serpents and toads not said here		her mouth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Serpents and toads issued from her mouth, each time she uttered a single word to anyone in the room

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 uttered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 toads	cc
3	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Serpents	conj
4	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Serpents	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 issued	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 uttered	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uttered	obl:unmarked
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 uttered	nsubj
12	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uttered	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 anyone	case
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 word	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		Serpents and toads not said here		her mouth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	utter speech: other	past	Serpents and toads	a single word	anyone		time		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to anyone=Recipient

Option 4

Pearls and jewels came from her mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 jewels	cc
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pearls	conj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Pearls and jewels			her mouth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location

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