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title: For what period of time does the Beast permit Beauty to be absent fr… — Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: For what period of time does the Beast permit Beauty to be absent from his palace? 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, with the 
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1440-pg503-part27/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:e2:1
# text = For what period of time does the Beast permit Beauty to be absent from his palace?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	permit	permit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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Days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:e2:o1:1
# text = Days
1	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:e2:o2:1
# text = A week
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	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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Six weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:e2:o3:1
# text = Six weeks
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:e2:o4:1
# text = Two months
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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