Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Dude, so the Nightingale was basically the real MVP?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: be · To what, where: real MVP

This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 MVP	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 MVP	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Nightingale	det
5	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 MVP	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 MVP	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	10 MVP	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 MVP	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 MVP	amod
10	MVP	mvp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Nightingale	the real MVP				basically property	tree rules

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

She saved the Emperor with her song, and the Court gave her a golden cage

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 song	nmod:poss
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Court	det
11	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saved	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cage	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cage	amod
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	save	past	She	the Emperor		with her song	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme
2	give	past	the Court	a golden cage	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cage=Theme
3	sing		her = she				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

She cured the Emperor with song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cured	nsubj
2	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cured	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 song	case
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	past	She	the Emperor				with song	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer emperor=Source

Option 3

She healed him with her singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 healed	nsubj
2	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 healed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 singing	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 singing	nmod:poss
6	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 healed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	past	She	him = he				with her singing	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with singing=Instrument
2	sing		her = she						nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She saved the Emperor with her song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 song	nmod:poss
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	She	the Emperor				with her song	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme
2	sing		her = she						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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