Exam question 2 · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

Identify the dog that held each captured animal fast, as stated in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: identify, hold, capture, state · To what, where: dog, captured animal, narrative

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	acl:relcl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 animal	det
7	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 held	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stated	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 stated	mark
12	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stated	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the dog			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	hold	past	the dog	each captured animal		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	capture	participle					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	state speech: other	participle	you not said here		the narrative		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Bogdan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ved	Ved	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nedviga, the swift grey hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hound	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hound	det
4	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hound	amod
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hound	amod
6	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nedviga	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nedviga

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	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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