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title: By what means did the wife's brothers arrive at the gate? — Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the wife's brothers arrive at the gate? Exam question 2 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

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By what means did the wife's brothers arrive at the gate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** mean, do, arrive · **To what, where:** gate

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1080-pg29021-part5/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e2:1
# text = By what means did the wife's brothers arrive at the gate?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **arrive** | present | the wife's brothers |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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on horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e2:o1:1
# text = on horses
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a hired wagon from the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e2:o2:1
# text = in a hired wagon from the market
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e2:o3:1
# text = by foot
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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on horseback as mounted horsemen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e2:o4:1
# text = on horseback as mounted horsemen
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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