Exam question 2 · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…
Which condition did Blue Beard impose upon his wife regarding the small closet?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Blue Beard · What happens: do, impose, regard
This is exam question 2 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Beard | amod |
| 5 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | nsubj |
| 6 | impose | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | obl |
| 10 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 closet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 closet | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 closet | amod |
| 13 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which condition | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | impose | present | Blue Beard | upon Beard's wife regard the small closet | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
She could not leave the house
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 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | could | She | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 2
She was locked in
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 locked | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | aux:pass |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock in | past · passive | She | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
She must stay quiet
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 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | must | She | quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She was forbidden to open it
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 forbidden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 open | mark |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbidden | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past · passive | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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