Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…
What animals did the poor brother take out to the plough?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animals · What happens: do, take out · To what, where: poor brother
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1101 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother: the henchmen in the drum settle the quarrel» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 plough | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plough | det |
| 11 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | animals | the poor brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | infinitive | animals not said here | to the plough | vn remove-10.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the oxen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oxen | det |
| 2 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the mules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mules | det |
| 2 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the goats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goats | det |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the ram
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 | 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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