Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

which one of them keeps everybody alive, the boy or the wife?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: keep · To what, where: everybody

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 keeps	obj
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeps	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	which one of them	everybody				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=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

the wife hid them, so she keeps them alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 keeps	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeps	obj
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the wife	them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	keep	present	wife	them = they				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the wife keeps them alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the wife	them = they				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

neither really, they both help sometimes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 help	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 help	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	nsubj
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 help	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	neither					sometimes property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Little Thumb keeps them alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thumb	amod
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Little Thumb	them = they				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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