Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses…

For what period of time does the Beast permit Beauty to be absent from his palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: period · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Beast permit Beauty, palace

This is exam question 2 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Beauty	det
8	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Beauty	compound
9	permit	permit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Beauty	compound
10	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 absent	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 absent	cop
13	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Beauty	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 palace	nmod:poss
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 absent	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	period of time	the Beast permit Beauty					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	period of time not said here	the Beast permit Beauty not said here		period's palace		absent property	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

Days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

A week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Six weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	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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