Exam question 3 · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…
What did the wife discover upon entering the forbidden closet?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, discover, enter, forbid · To what, where: forbidden closet
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | nsubj |
| 5 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 entering | mark |
| 7 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 discover | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 closet | det |
| 9 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 closet | amod |
| 10 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entering | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | discover | present | the wife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the wife not said here | the forbidden closet | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme closet=Destination | ||||
| 4 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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
Broken chairs and a dead dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chairs | amod |
| 2 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dog | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chairs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Clotted blood and murdered wives, hanging against the walls, all of them dead and silent for many years
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clotted | clot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clotted | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 murdered | cc |
| 4 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Clotted | conj |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 murdered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanging | punct |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 murdered | advcl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hanging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 all | nmod |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walls | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 silent | cc |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dead | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clot | participle | blood | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | murder | past | wives | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | the walls | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Clotted blood and murdered wives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clotted | clot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wives | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clotted | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 murdered | cc |
| 4 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Clotted | conj |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clot | participle | blood | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | murder | past | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The bodies of murdered wives lying in heaps, and clotted blood spread across the whole floor of the closet
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bodies | det |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wives | case |
| 4 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wives | amod |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bodies | nmod |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 wives | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heaps | case |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spread | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spread | cc |
| 11 | clotted | clot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 blood | amod |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 floor | amod |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 closet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 closet | det |
| 20 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floor | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | murdered wives not said here | heaps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location | ||||
| 3 | clot | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spread | participle · passive | the bodies of murdered wives | the whole floor of the closet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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