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title: Upon what surface did the wife observe the accumulated blood, accord… — Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what surface did the wife observe the accumulated blood, according to the narrative? Exam question 1 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, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 1 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…

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Upon what surface did the wife observe the accumulated blood, according to the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** surface, wife · **What happens:** do, observe, accumulate, accord · **To what, where:** accumulated blood

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This is exam question 1 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1481-pg503-part68/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e1:1
# text = Upon what surface did the wife observe the accumulated blood, according to the narrative?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	observe	observe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | surface |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | present | the wife | the accumulated blood |  |  |  | accord the narrative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blood=Topic |
| 3 | **accumulate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the stone floor of the closet on the ground level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e1:o1:1
# text = the stone floor of the closet on the ground level
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the floor of the closet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e1:o2:1
# text = the floor of the closet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e1:o3:1
# text = the floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the stone wall of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e1:o4:1
# text = the stone wall of the hall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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