Test 4 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

so is the wife totally on the boys' side or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: side

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	10 side	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 side	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nsubj
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 side	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 side	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 boys	case
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 side	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 side	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wife			the boys's side		totally property	tree rules

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

she mostly just did what her husband said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
2	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she					mostly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	her husband						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kinda, she tried to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 tried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she					kinda property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

kinda, she hid them under the bed first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 hid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she	them = they		the bed		first, kinda property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under bed=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nope, she's on the Ogre's side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	9 side	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 side	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 side	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ogre	det
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ogre	case
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she			the Ogre's side			tree rules

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