Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…
Which of the following was the destination of the herd driven by Tremsin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, drive · To what, where: herd
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 destination | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 destination | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 destination | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 destination | case |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 destination | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 destination | det |
| 7 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 herd | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 herd | det |
| 10 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destination | nmod |
| 11 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 herd | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Tremsin | case |
| 13 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 driven | obl:agent |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 destination | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | of the destination; of the herd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive | participle | the herd not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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 dark silver forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forest | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forest | compound |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The palace of the nobleman where the evil servants lived in fear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 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 palace | nmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 servants | amod |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the palace of the nobleman | fear | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The thrice-lovely Nastasia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nastasia | det |
| 2 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lovely | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrice | punct |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nastasia | amod |
| 5 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sea-shore where the nobleman had summoned all his servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shore | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 summoned | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nobleman | det |
| 7 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 summoned | aux |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 servants | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 summoned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · perfect · passive | the sea shore | 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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