Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…

Was his beard the thing that made all the girls run off, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: thing · What happens: be, make, run off · To what, where: beard, girls

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beard	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beard	nmod:poss
3	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 run	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 run	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 girls	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girls	det
10	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obj
11	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 run	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nah	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nah	cc
15	nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 run	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		his beard	tree rules
2	make	past	the thing	all girls	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset girl=Product
3	run off	present	the thing		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, honestly, they ran because he was too rich and kept too many servants and his beard was weirdly blue, lol

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 Nah	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 rich	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rich	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rich	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 rich	advmod
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ran	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 servants	amod
16	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blue	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 beard	nmod:poss
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blue	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blue	cop
21	weirdly	weirdly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blue	amod
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ran	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
24	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 ran	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	they			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he		rich property	tree rules
3	keep	past	they not said here	many servants		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
4	is	past	his beard		blue property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, his blue beard made them run, but also all the rumours about his dead wives and his secret locked room, bro

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beard	nmod:poss
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beard	amod
5	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rumours	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 rumours	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 rumours	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rumours	det
14	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	parataxis
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 wives	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wives	nmod:poss
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wives	amod
18	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rumours	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 secret	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 secret	nmod:poss
21	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rumours	conj
22	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 room	amod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 secret	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bro	punct
25	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rumours	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	his blue beard	them = they	tree rules
2	run	infinitive	them = they not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lock	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his blue beard made them run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beard	nmod:poss
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beard	amod
5	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his blue beard	them = they					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it was his awful temper, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 temper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 temper	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 temper	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 temper	nmod:poss
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 temper	amod
7	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 temper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	his awful temper and bro					tree rules

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