Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

Which object did the sister conceal after the destruction of the serpent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: conceal, destroy · To what, where: serpent

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conceal	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 destruction	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 destruction	det
9	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 serpent	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 serpent	det
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 destruction	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	which object				after the destruction of the serpent		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	destroy			the serpent					nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient

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 dragon's scale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scale	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dragon	case
4	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the serpent's tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 serpent	case
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tooth	det
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the bullock's horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bullock	det
2	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horn	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bullock	case
4	horn	horn	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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