Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…
Which object did the emperor offer as a token of the bird's distinction?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, bird · What happens: do, distinguish · To what, where: emperor offer
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 offer | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offer | compound |
| 6 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 token | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 token | det |
| 9 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 distinction | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 distinction | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 14 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 token | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the emperor offer | as a token of the bird's distinction | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | distinguish | the bird | nom distinction «cognition transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
"A silver necklace"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 necklace | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 necklace | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 necklace | amod |
| 4 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 necklace | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"A jewelled collar"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 collar | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 collar | det |
| 3 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 collar | amod |
| 4 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 collar | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell in a quote | participle | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A golden slipper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 slipper | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slipper | amod |
| 3 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"A ring"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ring | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ring | punct |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/912-pg27200-part123/e3/