Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

What was the nature of the artificial bird presented to the emperor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, present · To what, where: artificial bird, emperor

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
9	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bird	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 emperor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 emperor	det
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 presented	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the artificial bird						tree rules
2	present	participle		the artificial bird not said here	the emperor				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to emperor=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 · ✓ the right answer

A jewelled mechanical bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	jewelled	jewelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"A bird made of gold and jewels that wound up with a key and sang"

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jewels	cc
8	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gold	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wound	nsubj
10	wound	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 jewels	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wound	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 key	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 key	det
14	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wound	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	participle	a bird	of gold and jewels	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wound up in a quote	present	jewels	with a key	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express in a quote	past	a bird not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

"A golden clockwork singer"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 singer	amod
4	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singer	compound
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct

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

Option 4

"A jewelled mechanical bird that sang with a silver voice"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
3	jewelled	jewelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 voice	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 voice	det
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 voice	compound
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	past	a jewelled mechanical bird					with a silver voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme

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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