Exam question 1 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Which instrument did the Queen cause to be suspended within the fir tree?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: do, suspend · To what, where: Queen cause

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cause	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cause	compound
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 suspended	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 suspended	aux:pass
9	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cause	acl
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suspended	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which instrument	the Queen cause					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Eventuality
2	suspend	to-infinitive · passive	which instrument not said here	the Queen cause not said here				within the fir tree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»

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

a collection of knives, swords, and sharp hooks hung from every branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 knives	case
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swords	punct
6	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knives	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hung	cc
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hooks	amod
10	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hung	nsubj
11	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 branch	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 branch	det
14	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle · passive		a collection of knives and swords		every branch			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

a bundle of razors and blades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 razors	case
4	razors	razor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bundle	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blades	cc
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 razors	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a collection of knives and swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 knives	case
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swords	cc
6	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knives	conj

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

Option 4

a collection of knives and swords and razors strung up in every branch of the tree

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 knives	case
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swords	cc
6	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knives	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 razors	cc
8	razors	razor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knives	conj
9	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knives	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 strung	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 branch	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 branch	det
13	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strung	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 branch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	string up	participle		knives and swords and razors not said here		every branch of the tree			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in branch=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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