Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

In what manner did the Nightingale respond when invited to perform at Court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, invite, perform · To what, where: Nightingale respond, manner, Court

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 respond	det
6	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 respond	compound
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 invited	advmod
9	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 perform	mark
11	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 invited	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Court	case
13	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the Nightingale respond	what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	invite	participle			vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	perform not said to happen	to-infinitive		Court	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She sang with a heavy heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 heart	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heart	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heart	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She					with a heavy heart	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=Theme

Option 2

She agreed to sing for the Emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sing	mark
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agreed	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Emperor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Emperor	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	She						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here					for the Emperor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for emperor=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She sang with the greatest of pleasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 greatest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 greatest	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 sang	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greatest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She	the greatest					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location great=Theme

Option 4

She sang with the greatest of pleasure, though she was sad inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pleasure	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 pleasure	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 sad	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sang	conj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 sad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She					with the greatest pleasure	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=Theme
2	is	past	she					inside, sad property	tree rules

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