Exam question 1 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

What, according to the text, was the Fairy's principal demand of the royal household?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: text, principal demand

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 demand	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 What	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 text	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 according	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 demand	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
10	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 demand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Fairy	case
12	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 demand	amod
13	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 household	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 household	det
16	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 household	amod
17	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 demand	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 demand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal
2	is a	past		the Fairy's principal demand				of the royal household	tree rules

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 Princess's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That the Princess be wed to the Yellow Dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wed	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wed	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 wed	aux:pass
5	wed	w	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Dwarf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dwarf	det
8	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dwarf	amod
9	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	w	infinitive · passive		That				to the Yellow Dwarf	tree rules

Option 3

That the Princess be sent to the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sent	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 desert	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desert	det
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	infinitive · passive		That		the desert			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to desert=Destination

Option 4

That the royal guard be sent away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sent	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guard	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guard	amod
4	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	infinitive · passive		That				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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