Test 5 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…
Was the sheep sighting a win or a fail for the wife?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: be, sight · To what, where: sheep, win
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sheep | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sheep | det |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | sighting | sight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sheep | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 win | det |
| 6 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighting | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 fail | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fail | det |
| 9 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fail | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sight | gerund | the sheep not said here | a win or a fail for the wife | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer win=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 · ✓ the right answer
a total fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fail | det |
| 2 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fail | amod |
| 3 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a fail, since she saw nothing useful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fail | det |
| 2 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fail | acl:relcl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a total fail, because the sheep were not the brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fail | det |
| 2 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fail | amod |
| 3 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brothers | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 brothers | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brothers | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brothers | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 brothers | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fail | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the sheep | the brothers | tree rules |
Option 4
sort of a loss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 loss | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 loss | det |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sort | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | a loss | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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