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title: Which instrument did the Queen cause to be suspended within the fir… — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument did the Queen cause to be suspended within the fir tree? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1868-pg7277-part5/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e1:1
# text = Which instrument did the Queen cause to be suspended within the fir tree?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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» |

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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 {#o1}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e1:o1:1
# text = a collection of knives, swords, and sharp hooks hung from every branch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bundle of razors and blades

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e1:o2:1
# text = a bundle of razors and blades
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	razors	razor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a collection of knives and swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e1:o3:1
# text = a collection of knives and swords
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a collection of knives and swords and razors strung up in every branch of the tree

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e1:o4:1
# text = a collection of knives and swords and razors strung up in every branch of the tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	razors	razor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	strung	string	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**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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