Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

What was the principal cause of the Emperor's emotion during the performance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, emote · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 emotion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Emperor	det
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 emotion	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Emperor	case
10	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 performance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 performance	det
13	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emotion	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause				of the Emperor's emotion during the performance	tree rules
2	emote		the Emperor				during the performance		nom emotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent during=obl

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 bird's song drew tears from his eyes, and his whole court wept with him in silence

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wept	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 court	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 court	amod
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wept	nsubj
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wept	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 silence	case
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the bird's song	tears	song's eyes		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
2	weep	past	song's whole court			with song; in silence	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme
3	sing		the bird				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The bird's song drew tears from his eyes as the lamps burned low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 burned	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lamps	det
12	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burned	nsubj
13	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	advcl
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 burned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the bird's song	tears	song's eyes		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
2	burn	past	the lamps			low property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing		the bird				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The memory of his own lost childhood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 memory	det
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 childhood	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 childhood	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 childhood	amod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 childhood	amod
7	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 memory	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bird's song drew tears from his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the bird's song	tears		song's eyes			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
2	sing		the bird						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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