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title: What kinship did the Enchanter invoke when petitioning the Fairy Maz… — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What kinship did the Enchanter invoke when petitioning the Fairy Mazilla? Exam question 4 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 4 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

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What kinship did the Enchanter invoke when petitioning the Fairy Mazilla?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kinship · **What happens:** invoke, petition · **To what, where:** Fairy Mazilla

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e4:1
# text = What kinship did the Enchanter invoke when petitioning the Fairy Mazilla?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	invoke	invoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	petitioning	petition	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invoke** | past · do-support | kinship |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **petition** | gerund | kinship *not said here* | the Fairy Mazilla |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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They were friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e4:o1:1
# text = They were friends
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were kin by marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = They were kin by marriage
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	kin	kin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kin** | past · passive | marriage | They |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They were cousins of a sort

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = They were cousins of a sort
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | cousins |  |  |  | of a sort | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They were cousins of a sort, since both had the same ancient magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = They were cousins of a sort, since both had the same ancient magic
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | cousins |  |  |  | of a sort | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | both | the same ancient magic |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient |

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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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