Exam question 3 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir get…

On what condition did the maiden consent to accompany the Prince?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, accompany · To what, where: maiden consent, condition, Prince

This is exam question 3 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 consent	amod
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 accompany	mark
9	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 consent	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 accompany	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the maiden consent		condition			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality
2	accompany	to-infinitive		the Prince					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

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

That she might first embrace the Frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 embrace	nsubj:outer
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 embrace	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 embrace	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 embrace	advmod
5	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Frog	det
7	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 embrace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	might	That	the Frog				first property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Co-Agent

Option 2

That she might first saddle her horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 saddle	nsubj:outer
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saddle	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 saddle	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 saddle	advmod
5	saddle	saddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saddle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saddle	might	That		her horse			first property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That she might first view the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 view	nsubj:outer
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 view	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 view	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 view	advmod
5	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	view	might	That	the garden				first property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That she might first put on her dress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 put	nsubj:outer
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 dress	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dress	nmod:poss
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	might	That			her dress		first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination

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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