--- title: What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the… — Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc… · tree and pragmatics description: What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the bird? Exam question 4 of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1744-pg640-part68/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1744-pg640-part68/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a… What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the bird? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** confer, present · **To what, where:** rank, bird This is exam question 4 of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1744-pg640-part68/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:e4:1 # text = What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the bird? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 rank rank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 conferred confer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bandmaster bandmaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 presenting present VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confer** | past · passive | | what rank | | | | upon the bandmaster's man | tree rules | | 2 | **present** | gerund | the bandmaster's man *not said here* | the bird | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | 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 {#o1} Bird-bearer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:e4:o1:1 # text = Bird-bearer 1 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 bearer bearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:e4:o2:1 # text = Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale 1 Bringer bringer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Imperial Imperial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 First First ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 Nightingale Nightingale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Imperial Bringer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:e4:o3:1 # text = Imperial Bringer 1 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Bringer bringer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Keeper of the Imperial First Nightingale ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:e4:o4:1 # text = Keeper of the Imperial First Nightingale 1 Keeper Keeper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Imperial Imperial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 First First ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 Nightingale Nightingale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` 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. 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