Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

What was the outcome when the protagonist commanded the ram within his dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: protagonist · What happens: be, command · To what, where: outcome, ram · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 commanded	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 protagonist	det
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commanded	nsubj
8	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ram	det
10	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commanded	obj
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 dwelling	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dwelling	nmod:poss
13	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commanded	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome					tree rules
2	command	past	the protagonist	the ram				within protagonist's dwelling	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ram=Eventuality

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

The ram remained motionless and produced no currency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ram	det
2	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remained	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 produced	cc
6	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 currency	det
8	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 produced	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the ram					motionless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	produce	past	the ram not said here	no currency					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent currency=Result

Option 2

The ram stayed still and made no coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ram	det
2	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 coins	det
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the ram				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the ram not said here	no coins					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coin=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It did nothing

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	It	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

The ram scattered dust and sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ram	det
2	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ram	acl
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scattered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 scattered	cc
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle	the ram not said here	dust					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dust=Theme
2	sit down	past	the ram						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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