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title: Which of the following accurately identifies the sovereign who first… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following accurately identifies the sovereign who first expressed a wish to hear the Nightingale? Exam question 1 of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» of the books 
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

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Which of the following accurately identifies the sovereign who first expressed a wish to hear the Nightingale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sovereign · **What happens:** follow, identify, express, hear · **To what, where:** sovereign, wish, Nightingale

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1743-pg640-part67/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:e1:1
# text = Which of the following accurately identifies the sovereign who first expressed a wish to hear the Nightingale?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	identifies	identify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **identify** | present |  | the sovereign |  |  |  | accurately *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme |
| 3 | **express** | past | the sovereign | a wish |  |  |  | first *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the sovereign *not said here* | the Nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:e1:o1:1
# text = The Emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The First Lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:e1:o2:1
# text = The First Lord
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:e1:o3:1
# text = A cook
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The chaplain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:e1:o4:1
# text = The chaplain
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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