Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

Which of the following accurately identifies the sovereign who first expressed a wish to hear the Nightingale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sovereign · What happens: follow, identify, express, hear · To what, where: sovereign, wish, Nightingale

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sovereign	det
8	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 expressed	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 expressed	advmod
11	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sovereign	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wish	det
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 expressed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hear	mark
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 expressed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nightingale	det
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the sovereign	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme
3	express	past	the sovereign	a wish	first property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
4	hear	to-infinitive	the sovereign not said here	the Nightingale		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus

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

The Emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The First Lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lord	det
2	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Lord	amod
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The chaplain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chaplain	det
2	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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