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title: What did the wife discover upon entering the forbidden closet? — Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the wife discover upon entering the forbidden closet? Exam question 3 of lesson 1079 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl's words turn to toads, and Blue Beard finds blood on the key» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 3 · Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl'…

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What did the wife discover upon entering the forbidden closet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, discover, enter, forbid · **To what, where:** forbidden closet

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1079 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Blue Beard, part 4: a rude girl's words turn to toads, and Blue Beard finds blood on the key» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1079-pg29021-part4/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1079-pg29021-part4:e3:1
# text = What did the wife discover upon entering the forbidden closet?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discover	discover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | present | the wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | the wife *not said here* | the forbidden closet |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme closet=Destination |
| 4 | **forbid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Broken chairs and a dead dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1079-pg29021-part4:e3:o1:1
# text = Broken chairs and a dead dog
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Clotted blood and murdered wives, hanging against the walls, all of them dead and silent for many years

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1079-pg29021-part4:e3:o2:1
# text = Clotted blood and murdered wives, hanging against the walls, all of them dead and silent for many years
1	Clotted	clot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clot** | participle |  | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **murder** | past |  | wives |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  | the walls | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Clotted blood and murdered wives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1079-pg29021-part4:e3:o3:1
# text = Clotted blood and murdered wives
1	Clotted	clot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clot** | participle |  | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **murder** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bodies of murdered wives lying in heaps, and clotted blood spread across the whole floor of the closet

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1079-pg29021-part4:e3:o4:1
# text = The bodies of murdered wives lying in heaps, and clotted blood spread across the whole floor of the closet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	clotted	clot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | murdered wives *not said here* |  |  | heaps |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location |
| 3 | **clot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread** | participle · passive |  | the bodies of murdered wives |  | the whole floor of the closet |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**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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