Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: confer, present · To what, where: rank, bird

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 rank	det
2	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conferred	aux:pass
4	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bandmaster	det
7	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bandmaster	case
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	obl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 presenting	mark
11	presenting	present	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presenting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 conferred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confer	past · passive		what rank				upon the bandmaster's man	tree rules
2	present	gerund	the bandmaster's man not said here	the bird					vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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

Bird-bearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bearer	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Bird	punct
3	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bringer	bringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 Nightingale	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nightingale	det
4	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nightingale	compound
5	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Nightingale	amod
6	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bringer	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Imperial Bringer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Bringer	amod
2	Bringer	bringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Keeper of the Imperial First Nightingale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeper	Keeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 Nightingale	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nightingale	det
4	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nightingale	compound
5	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Nightingale	amod
6	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Keeper	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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