Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…
Bro, what was actually in that forbidden closet, like, the real stuff?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: forbid, be · To what, where: forbidden closet
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 closet | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 closet | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 closet | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 closet | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 closet | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 closet | det |
| 8 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 closet | amod |
| 9 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 11 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 closet | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuff | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stuff | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stuff | amod |
| 15 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Bro and the real stuff | that forbidden closet | actually property | tree rules |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Dead rats and some old gold, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rats | amod |
| 2 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gold | cc |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 gold | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rats | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bro | punct |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rats | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Clotted blood and dead wives, yikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clotted | clot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blood | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wives | cc |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wives | amod |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blood | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yikes | punct |
| 7 | yikes | yike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clot | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
Like clotted blood and dead wives hanging on the walls, all dead and gross, bro, you really don't want to know
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 blood | case |
| 2 | clotted | clot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blood | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wives | cc |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wives | amod |
| 6 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blood | conj |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wives | acl |
| 8 | on | on | 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 | _ | 3 blood | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 dead | det |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gross | cc |
| 15 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dead | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bro | punct |
| 17 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | vocative |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 want | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 want | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 want | advmod |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dead | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clot | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | dead wives not said here | the walls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Piles of gold and some old stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 gold | case |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Piles | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stuff | cc |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 stuff | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stuff | amod |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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