Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses…
In what circumstances does Beauty wake at the conclusion of this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Beauty · What happens: wake, conclude · To what, where: circumstances, part
This is exam question 4 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 circumstances | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wake | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wake | aux |
| 5 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wake | nsubj |
| 6 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 conclusion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conclusion | det |
| 9 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wake | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conclusion | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | present · do-support | Beauty | what circumstances | at the conclusion of this part | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | conclude | this part | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
In a room she has never seen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 room | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 room | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | she | a room not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |
Option 2
In her bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In her father's house again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 father | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 house | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In a room she knows well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 room | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 room | acl:relcl |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 knows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | she | a room not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |
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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