Exam question 1 · Russian Tales, Oh, the Greyhound, Falcon, Horse and Ring:…

Which of the following shapes did the son assume in order to sell himself at the fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: following shapes · What happens: follow, do, assume, sell · To what, where: son, himself, fair

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1097 «Russian Tales, Oh, the Greyhound, Falcon, Horse and Ring: the son's shape-changes end in a wedding» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 shapes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shapes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shapes	amod
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 did	xcomp
10	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 sell	mark
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sell	mark
13	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 assume	ccomp
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 sell	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 fair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fair	det
17	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sell	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	the following shapes	the son		tree rules
3	assume	infinitive	the following shapes not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	sell	to-infinitive	the following shapes not said here	himself = he	the fair	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at fair=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

A horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A golden-maned war charger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A fine grey stallion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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