Exam question 2 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

By what means did the Yellow Dwarf remove the Princess from the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Yellow Dwarf · What happens: mean, remove · To what, where: Princess, palace

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 remove	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remove	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dwarf	det
6	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Dwarf	amod
7	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remove	nsubj
8	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remove	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remove	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 remove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	remove	past · do-support	the Yellow Dwarf	the Princess		the palace			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from palace=Source

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 right answer

He snatched her from the Queen's arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	nsubj
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 arms	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arms	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Queen	case
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snatched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch	past	He	her = she		the Queen's arms			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from arm=Source

Option 2

He lifted her out of the palace window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 window	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	compound
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	He	her = she		the palace window			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out window=Destination

Option 3

He grabbed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	her = she					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

By force, on a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 force	case
2	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 force	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 force	nmod

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

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