Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…

Which object did the young man scatter in order to delay the Tsarivna during the second night's vigil?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, delay · To what, where: young man scatter, Tsarivna

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1108 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outwits the unclean spirit and wins the Tsar's daughter» 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	7 scatter	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scatter	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scatter	compound
7	scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 delay	mark
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 in	fixed
10	to	to	PART	_	11 delay	mark
11	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scatter	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tsarivna	det
13	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 delay	obj
14	during	during	ADP	_	19 vigil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 vigil	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 night	case
19	vigil	vigil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 delay	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the young man scatter					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scatter=Eventuality
2	delay	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the Tsarivna			during the second night's vigil		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent tsarivna=Source

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

Pears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A basket of nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 nuts	case
4	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 basket	nmod

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

Option 3

Nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A jar of honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 honey	case
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jar	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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