Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

What was the duration of the celebrations that followed the illustrious marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duration, celebrations · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: illustrious marriage

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duration	det
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 celebrations	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 celebrations	det
7	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 duration	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 followed	nsubj
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 celebrations	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marriage	det
11	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 marriage	amod
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 followed	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the duration of the celebrations						tree rules
2	follow	past	the celebrations	the illustrious marriage					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme

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

Far longer than anyone in the kingdom had expected to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 longer	advmod
2	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 expected	advmod
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 expected	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kingdom	det
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anyone	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 expected	aux
9	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 expected	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · perfect · passive		anyone				long property	tree rules
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	anyone not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nearly three months of feasting and dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 feasting	case
5	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dancing	cc
7	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feasting	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Almost two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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