--- title: Did Blue Beard run or stand his ground? — Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife… · tree and pragmatics description: Did Blue Beard run or stand his ground? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1080-pg29021-part5/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1080-pg29021-part5/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i… Did Blue Beard run or stand his ground? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, stand · **To what, where:** Blue Beard run, ground This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1080-pg29021-part5/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t8:1 # text = Did Blue Beard run or stand his ground? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Beard Beard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | Blue Beard run | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality | | 2 | **stand** | infinitive | | his ground | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | 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} he fought ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t8:o1:1 # text = he fought 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | he | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} he bounced ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t8:o2:1 # text = he bounced 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bounced bounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bounce** | past | he | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} he stood his ground and fought them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t8:o3:1 # text = he stood his ground and fought them 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | he | his ground | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | | 2 | **fight** | past | he *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} he stayed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:t8:o4:1 # text = he stayed 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past | he | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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