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description: Which quality did the young man's protests against his coronation display? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

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Which quality did the young man's protests against his coronation display?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1094-pg29021-part19/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:e4:1
# text = Which quality did the young man's protests against his coronation display?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	coronation	coronation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nobility of heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:e4:o1:1
# text = Nobility of heart
1	Nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sheer stubbornness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:e4:o2:1
# text = Sheer stubbornness
1	Sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stubbornness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:e4:o3:1
# text = Stubbornness
1	Stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cowardice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:e4:o4:1
# text = Cowardice
1	Cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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