Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

What did the Nightingale request concerning the clockwork bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nightingale request · What happens: do, concern · To what, where: Nightingale request, clockwork bird

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 request	det
4	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 request	compound
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 request	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	compound
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Nightingale request					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	the Nightingale request not said here	the clockwork bird					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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

That it be fixed and not broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fixed	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fixed	aux:pass
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broken	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 broken	advmod
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fixed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	infinitive · passive		That					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
2	not break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That it be kept and not broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broken	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 broken	advmod
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive · passive		That					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

That it be kept and not sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sold	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sold	advmod
7	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive · passive		That					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not sell	participle							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To be kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 kept	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive · passive							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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