Exam question 3 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…
What sentence did the husband pronounce upon his wife, and what request did she make in reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence, husband · What happens: do, pronounce, be, make · To what, where: reply
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pronounce | nsubj |
| 6 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pronounce | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 make | obj |
| 13 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 reply | case |
| 18 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sentence | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pronounce | infinitive | the husband | upon husband's wife | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · do-support | sentence | reply | vn build-26.1-1 «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 right answer
death, with a request for time to pray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 request | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 request | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 request | det |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 death | appos |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 request | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pray | mark |
| 9 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
prison, with a plea for mercy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plea | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plea | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plea | det |
| 5 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 prison | appos |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plea | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
exile, with a plea for mercy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exile | Exile | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plea | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plea | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plea | det |
| 5 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 exile | appos |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plea | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
death by the sword, with a request for a moment to pray to God
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 sword | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 death | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 request | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 request | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 request | det |
| 8 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 death | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 request | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pray | mark |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 request | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 God | case |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pray | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | to-infinitive | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | die | the sword | nom death «event intransitive»: by=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.
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