Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Which was the stated condition under which the Tsar would reward whoever delivered his daughter from the evil spirit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsar, whoever · What happens: state, be, reward, deliver · To what, where: stated condition, daughter, evil spirit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1107 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: the boy buys the holy image and is sent to the church» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reward	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tsar	det
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reward	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 reward	aux
11	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 condition	acl:relcl
12	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 delivered	nsubj
13	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reward	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 delivered	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 spirit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spirit	det
18	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spirit	compound
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 delivered	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	state speech: other	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the stated condition		tree rules
3	reward	would	the Tsar		the stated condition	tree rules
4	deliver	past	whoever	Tsar's daughter	the evil spirit	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from spirit=Initial_Location

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

His daughter's hand and a golden crown

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 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 daughter	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crown	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crown	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crown	amod
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Half his power and half his tsardom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 power	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 power	nmod:poss
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tsardom	cc
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 tsardom	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tsardom	nmod:poss
7	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 power	conj

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

Option 3

A third of his kingdom and his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kingdom	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kingdom	nmod:poss
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crown	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crown	nmod:poss
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Gold and silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 silver	cc
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj

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

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