Exam question 2 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

By what means did the Enchanter restore King Charming to health?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Enchanter · What happens: mean, restore · To what, where: Charming, health

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 restore	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	7 restore	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Enchanter	det
6	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 restore	nsubj
7	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Charming	nmod:desc
9	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 health	case
11	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 restore	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	restore	past · do-support	the Enchanter	Charming King	health				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent charming=Theme to health=Recipient

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

a bath of sweet river water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bath	det
2	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bath	nmod

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

Option 2

magic herbs combined with incantations and the blood of a Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combined	nsubj
3	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 incantations	case
5	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combined	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blood	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blood	det
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 incantations	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Fairy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Fairy	det
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle	magic herbs					with incantations and the blood of a Fairy	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with incantation=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

magic herbs combined with incantations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 incantations	case
5	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		magic herbs not said here				with incantations	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with incantation=Co-Patient

Option 4

magic herbs combined with incantations chanted over the sick bird for nine nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 incantations	case
5	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combined	obl
6	chanted	chant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 incantations	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chanted	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 nights	case
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 nights	nummod
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		magic herbs not said here			night	with incantations	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with incantation=Co-Patient
2	chant	participle		incantations not said here				over the sick bird	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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