Exam question 4 · Russian Tales, Oh, the Greyhound, Falcon, Horse and Ring:…

Name the outcome of the single remaining grain of millet at the conclusion of the tale.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: name, conclude · To what, where: outcome, conclusion, tale

This is exam question 4 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	Name	name	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Name	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 grain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grain	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grain	amod
7	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grain	amod
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 millet	case
10	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grain	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 conclusion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 conclusion	det
13	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Name	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 conclusion	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of the single remaining grain of millet		the conclusion of the tale			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme
2	conclude			the tale					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It became a beauteous youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 youth	det
4	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youth	amod
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	a beauteous youth					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It became a handsome lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	a handsome lad					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It turned into a prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 prince	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It					into a prince result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into prince=Result

Option 4

A youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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