Exam question 3 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is…
By what means did the Queen obtain information from the courtiers, as narrated?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: mean, obtain, narrate · To what, where: information, courtiers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1865 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is hidden away in a tower while the Prince visits» 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Queen | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 obtain | nsubj |
| 7 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtain | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 courtiers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtiers | det |
| 11 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 obtain | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 narrated | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 narrated | mark |
| 14 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 obtain | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | 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 clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | obtain | present | the Queen | information | the courtiers | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent information=Theme from courtier=Source | |||
| 3 | narrate speech: other | participle | the Queen not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
by private questioning and report
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 questioning | case |
| 2 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 questioning | amod |
| 3 | questioning | questioning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 report | cc |
| 5 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 questioning | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 letter | case |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
by private questioning, bribery and a report from her spies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 questioning | case |
| 2 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 questioning | amod |
| 3 | questioning | questioning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bribery | punct |
| 5 | bribery | bribery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 questioning | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 report | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 report | det |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 questioning | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 spies | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 report | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
by bribing the palace servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 bribing | mark |
| 2 | bribing | bribe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servants | compound |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bribing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bribe | gerund | the palace servants | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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