Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

Specify the object which the Tsar promised to the Accursed One in exchange for his release.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Tsar · What happens: specify, promise, accurs · To what, where: object, Accursed One

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» 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	Specify	specify	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 Specify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 promised	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 One	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 One	det
10	Accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 One	amod
11	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 exchange	case
13	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 One	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 release	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 release	nmod:poss
16	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exchange	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the object		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	the Tsar	the object	the Accursed One in exchange for Tsar's release	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme to one=Goal
3	accurs	participle				tree rules

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

His children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 children	nmod:poss
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

His horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horses	nmod:poss
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The offspring awaiting him at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 offspring	det
2	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 offspring	acl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awaiting	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awaiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	await	gerund	the offspring not said here	him = he		home			tree rules

Option 4

The gold awaiting him at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 gold	acl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awaiting	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awaiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	await	gerund	the gold not said here	him = he		home			tree rules

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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