Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

What condition does the red Rose-tree impose upon the Nightingale in order to furnish the rose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, red Rose tree · What happens: do, impose, furnish · To what, where: rose

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
6	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Rose	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impose	nsubj
9	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 Nightingale	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Nightingale	det
12	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 impose	obl
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 furnish	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 furnish	mark
16	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 impose	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rose	det
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 furnish	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	what condition			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	impose	present	the red Rose tree		upon the Nightingale	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	furnish	to-infinitive	the red Rose tree not said here	the rose		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Recipient

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 must sing against a thorn until she dies of it

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	3 sing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 thorn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thorn	det
6	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 dies	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dies	nsubj
9	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	must	She			a thorn			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thorn=Location
2	die	present	she					of thorn	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of it=Causer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She must sing all night by the window

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	3 sing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl:unmarked
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	must	She				night	by the window	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location

Option 3

She must sing against a sharp thorn all night until death comes

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	3 sing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	7 thorn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thorn	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thorn	amod
7	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl:unmarked
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 comes	mark
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	must	She			a sharp thorn	night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thorn=Location
2	come	present	death						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She must sing against a thorn until death

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	3 sing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 thorn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thorn	det
6	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	must	She			a thorn	until death		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thorn=Location

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