Exam question 2 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…

By what means did the husband ascertain the transgression committed by his spouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, ascertain, commit · To what, where: husband, transgression · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1481 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the forbidden closet and is saved by her brothers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ascertain	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 transgression	det
9	transgression	transgression	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ascertain	obj
10	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 transgression	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 spouse	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 spouse	nmod:poss
13	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 committed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the husband		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
3	ascertain	present	the transgression		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Topic
4	commit	participle	the transgression not said here	by husband's spouse	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 trembling of her hand upon the keys he gave her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trembling	det
2	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembling	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 keys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keys	det
8	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trembling	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the trembling of trembling's hand upon the keys		her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	tremble		trembling's hand					upon the keys	nom trembling «state intransitive»: of=agent upon=obl

Option 2

the visible trembling of her hand as she gave up the keys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trembling	det
2	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trembling	amod
3	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trembling	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 gave	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 keys	det
12	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the visible trembling of trembling's hand	the keys					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Source
2	tremble		trembling's hand						nom trembling «state intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the trembling of her hand upon the keys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trembling	det
2	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembling	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 keys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keys	det
8	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trembling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble		her hand					upon the keys	nom trembling «state intransitive»: of=agent upon=obl

Option 4

her shaking voice at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
2	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	compound
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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