Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: assist, recover · To what, where: Tremsin, coral necklace

This is exam question 2 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assists	nsubj
3	assists	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 assists	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 recovering	mark
6	recovering	recover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 assists	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 necklace	det
8	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 necklace	amod
9	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovering	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 assists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assist	present	which creature		Tremsin				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tremsin=Beneficiary
2	recover	gerund	which creature not said here	the coral necklace					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme

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

a gull with her chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gull	det
2	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 chicks	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chicks	nmod:poss
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gull	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a crab with her young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crab	det
2	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 young	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 young	nmod:poss
5	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crab	nmod

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

Option 3

a crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crab	det
2	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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