Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

What was the ultimate fate of the nobleman upon entering the third vat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobleman · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: ultimate fate, third vat

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nobleman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nobleman	det
8	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 entering	mark
10	entering	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 nobleman	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vat	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 vat	amod
13	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entering	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate fate				of the nobleman	tree rules
2	enter	gerund	the nobleman not said here	the third vat					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vat=Destination

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

Dissolution into fragments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 fragments	case
3	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dissolution	nmod

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

Option 2

Being boiled alive and dissolved slowly into the milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boiled	aux:pass
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boiled	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dissolved	cc
5	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boiled	conj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 dissolved	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 milk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 milk	det
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dissolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund · passive						alive property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
2	dissolve	participle						into the milk result; slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into milk=Result

Option 3

Turning into a stone pillar standing in the middle of the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 pillar	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pillar	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pillar	compound
5	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Turning	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				a stone pillar			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into pillar=Trajectory
2	stand	gerund				the middle of the field			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

Option 4

Imprisonment in the vat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 vat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vat	det
4	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imprisonment	nmod

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

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