Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…
Which artificial object was delivered to the Emperor in a box at the close of this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: deliver · To what, where: Emperor, box
This is exam question 4 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 | 5 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 object | amod |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delivered | aux:pass |
| 5 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 close | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 close | det |
| 14 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 close | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 delivered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | the Emperor | a box at the close of this part | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to emperor=Destination |
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
A mechanical bird of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | mechanical | mechanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An artificial nightingale set with jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 3 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 jewels | case |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
An artificial nightingale set with jewels and sent from Japan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 3 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 jewels | case |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Japan | case |
| 10 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle · passive | a artificial nightingale set with jewels | Japan | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from japan=Initial_Location |
Option 4
A golden toy bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | compound |
| 4 | bird | bird | 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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