Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…
did the Ogre's wife faint or just nap when she saw the mess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, nap, see · To what, where: wife, mess
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ogre | det |
| 3 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ogre | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 6 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 did | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nap | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 nap | advmod |
| 9 | nap | nap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 faint | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nap | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mess | det |
| 14 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Ogre's wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | nap | infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | wife | the mess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mess=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 · ← Mova's choice
she fainted, then woke up screaming
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 | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 woke | advmod |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 woke | compound:prt |
| 7 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 woke | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | she | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wake up | past | she not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | she not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
she fainted, for sure
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 | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fainted | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sure | case |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fainted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | she | for sure | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
she fainted, like totally
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 | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 totally | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 totally | case |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 fainted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | she | totally property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
she fainted away, really, like totally shocked
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 | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 fainted | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 fainted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shocked | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 shocked | case |
| 8 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 9 shocked | advmod |
| 9 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fainted | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint away | past | she | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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