Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

Why'd the wife get the whole estate, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: get · To what, where: whole estate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 estate	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 estate	amod
8	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 estate	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the wife	the whole estate and lowkey					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer estate=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

he had no heirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 heirs	det
4	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no heirs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient

Option 2

because the law gave widows everything they wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 gave	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 law	det
3	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	widows	widow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 gave	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the law	everything	widows				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent widow=Recipient everything=Theme
2	want	past	widows = widow						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

because he gave her all of it by will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 gave	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 will	case
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	all	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient all=Theme

Option 4

he owed no debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owed	nsubj
2	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 debts	det
4	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	he	no debts					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent debt=Theme

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