Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…
How did Blue Beard know she messed up, like, did he just guess?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blue Beard, Beard, he · What happens: know, mess up, guess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Beard | amod |
| 4 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 messed | nsubj |
| 7 | messed | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 messed | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 messed | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guess | punct |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 guess | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 guess | nsubj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 guess | advmod |
| 15 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 messed | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · do-support | Blue Beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mess up | past | Beard | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | guess | past · do-support | he | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, from her shaky hand, he guessed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 hand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 guessed | nsubj |
| 9 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hand | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | he | her shaky hand not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, the key was all bloody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 bloody | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 key | det |
| 4 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bloody | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bloody | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 bloody | advmod |
| 7 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the key | all, bloody property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, the blood was on her dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 dress | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dress | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dress | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dress | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 dress | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the blood | her dress | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he saw her shaky hand and the red key when she gave it back, and then he asked her to tell the truth, bro
The tree, 25 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 key | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 key | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 key | amod |
| 11 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | conj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 gave | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 gave | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 asked | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tell | mark |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 truth | det |
| 26 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bro | punct |
| 28 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | her shaky hand and the red key | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give back | past | she | key | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | he | her = she | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient bro=Topic |
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