Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…
Which quality did the young man's protests against his coronation display?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: quality, young man · What happens: do, protest, display · To what, where: protests
This is exam question 4 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 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | 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 | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 protests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 display | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 display | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coronation | coronation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 display | compound |
| 12 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which quality | the young man's protests | against quality's coronation display | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protest=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | protest | the young man | nom protest «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | display | quality | nom display «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 right answer
Nobility of heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobility | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sheer stubbornness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stubbornness | compound |
| 2 | stubbornness | stubbornness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Stubbornness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stubbornness | stubbornness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cowardice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cowardice | cowardice | 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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