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title: Which object did the Queen employ to obtain admission to the palace… — Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the Queen employ to obtain admission to the palace chamber? Exam question 1 of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

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Which object did the Queen employ to obtain admission to the palace chamber?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, obtain · **To what, where:** Queen employ, admission

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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/1869-pg7277-part6/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:e1:1
# text = Which object did the Queen employ to obtain admission to the palace chamber?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	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	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 object | the Queen employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | admission |  |  |  | to the palace chamber | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset admission=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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a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:e1:o1:1
# text = a ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the golden necklace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:e1:o2:1
# text = the golden necklace
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:e1:o3:1
# text = the crown
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crown	crown	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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the emerald bracelets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:e1:o4:1
# text = the emerald bracelets
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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