Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…
Which condition did the young man's uncles impose upon the nephew's departure from the kingdom with the Tsar's blessing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition, uncles, nephew, Tsar · What happens: do, impose, depart, bless · To what, where: kingdom
This is exam question 4 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 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | 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 | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 impose | nsubj |
| 9 | impose | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 departure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nephew | det |
| 12 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 departure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 nephew | case |
| 14 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impose | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impose | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blessing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsar | det |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Tsar | case |
| 22 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impose | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which condition | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | impose | present | the young man's uncles | the kingdom | upon the nephew's departure; with the Tsar's blessing | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | depart | the nephew | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | bless | the Tsar | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Departure in their ships with the nephew on board
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 ships | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ships | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Departure | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 nephew | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nephew | det |
| 7 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ships | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nephew | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Leave by land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | by land | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by land=Location |
Option 3
Sail back with the gold aboard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Sail | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sail | obl |
| 6 | aboard | aboard | ADV | _ | 1 Sail | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail back | imperative | you not said here | with the gold; aboard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Leave only after the wedding feast was over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feast | compound |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the wedding feast | over property | tree rules |
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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