Exam question 2 · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

For what duration was the sleep of the Princess prescribed by the younger Fairy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, prescribe · To what, where: sleep, Princess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 duration	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 duration	nsubj
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleep	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sleep	det
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	nmod
10	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Princess	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 Fairy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
13	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 Fairy	amod
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prescribed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sleep				for duration; of the Princess	tree rules
2	prescribe	participle		the Princess not said here				by the younger Fairy	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 right answer

a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

one night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a hundred days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thousand	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	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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