Exam question 3 · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

What precise instruction did the Wind give the man regarding taverns?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: give, regard · To what, where: man

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 give	obl
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 instruction	amod
3	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 taverns	case
11	taverns	tavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 man	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the Wind	the man				regard taverns	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

That he must avoid all inns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 avoid	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 avoid	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 avoid	aux
4	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 inns	det
6	inns	inn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	must	That	all inns					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent inn=Location

Option 2

That he must sleep at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sleep	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	must	That			home			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That he must not stop at any inn on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stop	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 inn	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 inn	det
8	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	must	That			any inn		on the way	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That he must enter no tavern on his way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 enter	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enter	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 enter	aux
4	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tavern	det
6	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enter	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enter	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	must	That	no tavern		his way			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tavern=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1098-pg29672-part4/e3/