Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Which description applies to the Emperor before the Nightingale's song?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description, Nightingale · What happens: apply, sing · To what, where: song

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applies	nsubj
3	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Emperor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Emperor	det
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 applies	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	11 song	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Nightingale	det
9	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 song	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Nightingale	case
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applies	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 applies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present	which description			the Nightingale's song		to the Emperor	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before song=Destination
2	sing		the Nightingale						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 believed	cc
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	participle · passive	the Court	Cold				dead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court, as the bandmaster had announced that morning

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 believed	cc
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 announced	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 announced	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bandmaster	det
14	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 announced	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 announced	aux
16	announced	announce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 believed	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 morning	mark
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 announced	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	participle · passive	the Court	Cold				dead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	announce speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the bandmaster			morning		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Warm, flushed, and believed alive by the Court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flushed	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Warm	punct
3	flushed	flush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 believed	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 believed	cc
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flush	participle							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	participle						by the Court; alive property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court, lying still upon his golden bed in the great hall

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 believed	cc
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lying	punct
12	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 believed	advcl
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 lying	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 bed	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 hall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hall	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hall	amod
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	participle · passive	the Court	Cold				dead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	the Court not said here			the great hall	still	upon his golden bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location

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