Exam question 3 · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…
State the number of companions accompanying the Tsar upon his final return home.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, companions, his · What happens: state, accompany, return · To what, where: number, Tsar, final return
This is exam question 3 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 companions | case |
| 5 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 companions | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 accompanying | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 return | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 return | nmod:poss |
| 11 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 return | amod |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accompanying | obl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 return | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of companions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accompany | gerund | companions not said here | the Tsar | his final return | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme upon return=Destination | |||
| 3 | return | his = he | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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