Test 4 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Did the Ogre's missus try to save them, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: missus · What happens: try, save · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ogre	det
3	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 missus	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ogre	case
5	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 save	mark
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 save	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 try	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the Ogre's missus						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Ogre's missus not said here	them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she begged him to wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wait	mark
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said to wait till morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	xcomp
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 morning	case
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	to-infinitive	she not said here				morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she hid them under the bed and begged him to wait till morning

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wait	mark
13	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	xcomp
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 morning	case
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hide	past	she	them = they		the bed		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under bed=Location
2	beg speech: request	past	she not said here		him = he			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here				morning	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she left them alone to be eaten by him in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	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 left	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 eaten	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 eaten	aux:pass
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eaten	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she	them = they				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive · passive	him = he				morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1468-pg503-part55/t4/