Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…
State the location to which the Tsar repaired for the purpose of procuring provisions.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsar, procuring provisions · What happens: repair, procure, purpose
This is exam question 4 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | appos |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 repaired | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 repaired | nsubj |
| 8 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 location | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 purpose | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 purpose | det |
| 11 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repaired | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 provisions | case |
| 13 | procuring | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 provisions | amod |
| 14 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 purpose | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repair | past | the Tsar | to the location; for the purpose of procuring provisions | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | procure | gerund | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | purpose | procuring provisions | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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 market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 market | det |
| 2 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The bazaar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bazaar | det |
| 2 | bazaar | bazaar | 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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