Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Which title was conferred upon the mechanical bird upon its first public performance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: title · What happens: confer, perform · To what, where: title

This is exam question 1 of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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 title	det
2	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conferred	aux:pass
4	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 performance	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 performance	nmod:poss
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 performance	amod
12	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 performance	amod
13	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 conferred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confer	past · passive		which title				upon the mechanical bird upon title's first public performance	tree rules
2	perform		title						nom performance «communication 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

Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief of the entire golden palace and its gardens

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chief	amod
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bringer	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nightingale	punct
4	bringer	bringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chief	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chief	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
11	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gardens	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 gardens	nmod:poss
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 palace	conj

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

Option 2

Royal palace bird-master-general

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 general	amod
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	compound
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bird	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 general	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
7	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Imperial nightingale-keeper-in-chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chief	amod
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeper	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nightingale	punct
4	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chief	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chief	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chief	amod
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bringer	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nightingale	punct
4	bringer	bringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chief	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chief	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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