Exam question 3 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

What condition did the Fairy Mazilla impose upon the restoration of King Charming?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Fairy Mazilla · What happens: do, impose

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	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 Mazilla	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mazilla	compound
6	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 impose	nsubj
7	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 restoration	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 restoration	det
10	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 impose	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Charming	case
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Charming	nmod:desc
13	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 restoration	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition						tree rules
2	impose	present	the Fairy Mazilla					upon the restoration of Charming King	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

To wed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wed	mark
2	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive		her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That he marry Turritella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 marry	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	infinitive	That	Turritella					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient

Option 3

That he wed the Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wed	nsubj
3	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	w	past	That	the Queen					tree rules

Option 4

That he become a Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 become	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	infinitive	That	a Fairy					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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