Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

Which object does the youth pick up in the land of Thrice Ten?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, youth · What happens: do, pick up · To what, where: land

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» 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 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pick	nsubj
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ten	case
12	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Ten	compound
13	Ten	Ten	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 land	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which object						tree rules
2	pick up	present	the youth			the land of Thrice Ten			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

the sword of the nobleman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 nobleman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nobleman	det
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sword	nmod

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

Option 2

the golden feather of the Bird Zhar from her high nest in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feather	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feather	amod
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Zhar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Zhar	det
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zhar	compound
7	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feather	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 nest	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nest	amod
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feather	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hills	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hills	det
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feather	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the feather of the Bird Zhar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Zhar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Zhar	det
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zhar	compound
6	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feather	nmod

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

Option 4

the glowing feather of the Bird Zhar lying on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feather	det
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 feather	amod
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Zhar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Zhar	det
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zhar	compound
7	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feather	nmod
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 feather	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	gerund	the glowing feather of the Bird Zhar not said here			the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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