Test 3 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

wait, who put the crowns on the wrong heads, the boys or the girls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, put · To what, where: crowns, wrong heads

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowns	det
6	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 heads	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heads	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heads	amod
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boys	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heads	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 girls	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girls	det
16	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 boys	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past		the crowns		the wrong heads the boys or the girls			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on head=Destination

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 boys did it, the girls didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boys	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boys	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	the boys						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the girls did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the girls	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Little Thumb did it

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 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Little Thumb	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

the wife did it

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 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the wife	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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