Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

Which individual was the first recipient of the invitation to the nuptials, notwithstanding his non-disclosure of the bride's identity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: individual · What happens: be, notwithstand · To what, where: first recipient, non-disclosure

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to 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 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recipient	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recipient	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 recipient	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 recipient	amod
6	recipient	recipient	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 invitation	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 invitation	det
9	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recipient	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 nuptials	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nuptials	det
12	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 invitation	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 notwithstanding	punct
14	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 recipient	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 non-disclosure	nmod:poss
16	non-disclosure	non-disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 notwithstanding	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 identity	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bride	det
19	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 identity	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 bride	case
21	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 non-disclosure	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 recipient	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which individual	the first recipient				of the invitation to the nuptials	tree rules
2	notwithstand	gerund	which individual not said here	his non-disclosure of the bride's identity					tree rules

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 Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The neighbouring Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbouring	det
2	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 neighbouring	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Princess's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Prince's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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