Exam question 2 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir get…

Which of the Frog's instructions did the Prince disregard on his first visit to the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instructions, Frog · What happens: do, instruct, visit · To what, where: Prince disregard, first visit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1690 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir gets the bird's branch, then finds a maiden and a palace where the fountain was» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 instructions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Frog	det
4	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 instructions	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Frog	case
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 disregard	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 disregard	compound
10	disregard	disregard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 visit	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 visit	nmod:poss
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 visit	amod
14	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visit	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Frog's instructions	the Prince disregard	Frog's first visit to the castle		tree rules
2	instruct		the Frog				nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent
3	visit		Frog			to the castle	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

He carried off a golden ornament

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ornament	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ornament	amod
6	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past	He	a golden ornament					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He took the saddle along with the horse

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 saddle	det
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	along	along	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	the saddle				with the horse; along property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme

Option 3

He woke the maiden in her bedchamber

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bedchamber	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bedchamber	nmod:poss
7	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	He	the maiden		her bedchamber			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient

Option 4

He drank water from the castle well

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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obl
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 drank	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	He	water		the castle		well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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