Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

Did Blue Beard run or stand his ground?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stand · To what, where: Blue Beard run, ground

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 run	amod
3	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 run	compound
4	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 stand	cc
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Did	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ground	nmod:poss
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Blue Beard run					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality
2	stand	infinitive		his ground					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=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

he fought

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he bounced

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 bounced	nsubj
2	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he stood his ground and fought them

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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ground	nmod:poss
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fought	cc
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	he	his ground					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus
2	fight	past	he not said here	them = they					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 4

he stayed

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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