Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…
real talk, what happened to Blue Beard in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: happen · To what, where: Blue Beard, end
This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Beard | case |
| 7 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Beard | amod |
| 8 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | real talk | Blue Beard | in the end | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location |
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 wife locked him in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 locked | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | the wife | him = he | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
his brothers-in-law arrested him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrested | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 law | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | conj |
| 7 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arrested | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrest | past | his brothers and law | him = he | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3
he was killed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | he | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his brothers-in-law ran him through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 law | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | conj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | his brothers and law | him = he | through property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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