Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

With reference to the final episode, what was the nightingale's answer when the Princess inquired after the teacher of his new song?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final episode, Princess, teacher · What happens: be, inquire, sing · To what, where: answer

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inquired	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 episode	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 episode	det
5	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 episode	amod
6	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answer	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 answer	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answer	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nightingale	det
11	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answer	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 nightingale	case
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 episode	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 inquired	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 inquired	nsubj
17	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 teacher	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 teacher	det
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inquired	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 song	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 song	nmod:poss
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 song	amod
24	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 teacher	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 inquired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the final episode and the nightingale's answer	the nightingale's answer			tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	past	the Princess		after the teacher of teacher's new song	with reference to the final episode and the nightingale's answer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing		teacher				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

Peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Practice and patience and a very long study of the old masters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 patience	cc
3	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practice	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 study	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 study	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 study	amod
8	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practice	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 masters	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 masters	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 masters	amod
12	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 study	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study			the old masters					nom study «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Princess herself, who had taught him every note of it at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Princess	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taught	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 taught	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taught	aux
7	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Princess	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taught	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 note	det
10	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 note	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dusk	case
14	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Princess Princess	him = he		dusk		tree rules
2	note			note					nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Love	love	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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