Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…
Which object did the youth carry on board his uncles' ship in addition to his laths and boards?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, youth · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: ship
This is exam question 3 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 8 | board | board | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ship | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 uncles | case |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 addition | case |
| 14 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ship | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 laths | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 laths | nmod:poss |
| 17 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 addition | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 boards | cc |
| 19 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laths | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | present | the youth | object's uncles's ship in addition to object's laths and boards | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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
The painted icon of Michael
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 icon | det |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 icon | amod |
| 3 | icon | icon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Michael | case |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 icon | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The holy image of St Michael and a bundle of fishing nets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 image | det |
| 2 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 image | amod |
| 3 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Michael | case |
| 5 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 image | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bundle | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bundle | det |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 image | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nets | case |
| 11 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nets | compound |
| 12 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bundle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | image | Michael St | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The holy image of St Michael
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 image | det |
| 2 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 image | amod |
| 3 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Michael | case |
| 5 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 image | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | image | Michael St | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A wooden cross from church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cross | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cross | amod |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | nmod |
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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