Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

And Madam Puss, what'd she do to the King?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Madam · What happens: do · To what, where: Madam

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 Madam	cc
2	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Puss	Puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Madam	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Madam	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	Madam	Madam				to the King	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

scratched him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 scratched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past		him = he					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

clawed his cheek, scarring him for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clawed	claw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cheek	nmod:poss
3	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 clawed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scarring	punct
5	scarring	scar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 clawed	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scarring	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scarring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claw	past		his cheek					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient
2	scar	gerund		him = he				for life	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

scratched his eye, nearly blinded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scratched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blinded	punct
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 blinded	advmod
6	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 scratched	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blinded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past		his eye					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	blind	past		him = he				nearly property	tree rules

Option 4

scratched his eye, nearly blinded him, and ran off into the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scratched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blinded	punct
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 blinded	advmod
6	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 scratched	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blinded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 scratched	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	his eye		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	blind	past	him = he	nearly property	tree rules
3	run off	past		into the palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result

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