Exam question 2 · Russian Tales, Oh, the Greyhound, Falcon, Horse and Ring:…

Identify the object into which the Tsarivna's ring was transformed upon contact with the floor.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, transform · To what, where: object, ring

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 transformed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tsarivna	det
7	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ring	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tsarivna	case
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transformed	aux:pass
11	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 object	acl:relcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 contact	case
13	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contact	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	transform	past · passive		the Tsarivna's ring		the object		upon contact with the floor	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result

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 heap of millet-seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 seed	case
4	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 millet	punct
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod

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

Option 2

A heap of golden millet-seed scattered wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 seed	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seed	amod
5	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 millet	punct
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod
8	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 seed	acl
9	wide	wide	ADV	_	8 scattered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle		golden millet seed not said here				wide property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A heap of millet-seed and dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 seed	case
4	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 millet	punct
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dust	cc
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seed	conj

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

Option 4

A heap of rye-grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 grain	case
4	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grain	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rye	punct
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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