Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses…

Which response does Beauty give to the Beast's proposal of marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: response, marriage · What happens: give, propose · To what, where: proposal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1440 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses the Beast's proposal, asks to visit home, and wakes in a strange room» 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 response	det
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 proposal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Beast	det
8	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 proposal	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Beast	case
10	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 marriage	case
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proposal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	which response		the Beast's proposal of marriage				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to proposal=Recipient
2	propose		marriage						nom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=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

She replies, "No, thank you."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replies	nsubj
2	replies	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 replies	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
5	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 thank	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 replies	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	present	She						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

She answers, "Yes, Beast."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answers	nsubj
2	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 Beast	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
7	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answers	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	She	Beast					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She answers, "No, Beast."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answers	nsubj
2	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
5	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Beast	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
7	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answers	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	She	Beast					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She answers, "No, Beast, I cannot marry you."

The tree, 9 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answers	nsubj
2	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
5	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Beast	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Beast	punct
7	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answers	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marry	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 marry	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 marry	advmod
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answers	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 marry	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	She	Beast					tree rules
2	not marry in a quote	can	I	you					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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