Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

What was the principal cause of the emperor's emotion during the performance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: be, emote · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 2 of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 emotion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 emperor	det
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emotion	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 emperor	case
10	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 performance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 performance	det
13	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emotion	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause				of the emperor's emotion during the performance	tree rules
2	emote		the emperor				during the performance		nom emotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent during=obl

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

"The bright jewels of the bird"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 jewels	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jewels	det
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jewels	amod
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jewels	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 jewels	punct

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

Option 2

"The tender singing of the bird in the dark, by the water"

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 singing	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 singing	det
3	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 singing	amod
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	appos
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing in a quote			the bird in the dark					nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

"The sad story of a poor girl from the kitchen brought before him"

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	past	the sad story of a poor girl from the kitchen				before him = he		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The tender singing of the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 singing	det
2	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 singing	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	nmod

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

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