Exam question 1 · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

Which faculty did the Princess acquire through the bestowal of Riquet with the Tuft?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: faculty, Princess · What happens: do, acquire, bestow · To what, where: bestowal, Riquet

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1087 «Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her word and marries the prince» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	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	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	nsubj
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 bestowal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bestowal	det
9	bestowal	bestowal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Riquet	case
11	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestowal	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Tuft	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tuft	det
14	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Riquet	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which faculty			tree rules
2	acquire	present	the Princess		the bestowal of Riquet with the Tuft	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bestow			Riquet with the Tuft		nom bestowal «act transitive»: of=patient

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

The faculty of wit, sound judgement, and great charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wit	case
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 judgement	punct
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 judgement	compound
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 charm	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 charm	cc
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 charm	amod
11	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	conj

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

Option 2

The faculty of wit and sound judgement, given at birth by a fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wit	case
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 judgement	cc
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 judgement	compound
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wit	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 birth	case
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fairy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle · passive	a fairy	the faculty of wit and sound judgement		birth			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at birth=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The faculty of wit and sound judgement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wit	case
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 judgement	cc
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 judgement	compound
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faculty	conj

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

Option 4

The power of sight and hearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sight	case
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hearing	cc
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	conj

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

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