Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

What prohibition had the wife imposed upon the labourer regarding her name?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prohibition · What happens: have, impose, regard, name · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wife	acl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 labourer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 labourer	det
9	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imposed	obl
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 name	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 labourer	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	what prohibition	the wife		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	impose	participle		the wife not said here	upon the labourer regard prohibition's name	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	name		prohibition			nom name «communication 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

Never to call her a serpent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 call	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 call	mark
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 serpent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not call	to-infinitive			her = she				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Never to call her names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 call	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 call	mark
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 names	nmod:poss
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not call	to-infinitive		her names					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Never to speak of the three fields or his wife's past life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 speak	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 speak	mark
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fields	nummod
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speak	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 life	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 life	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 wife	case
12	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fields	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive						of the three fields or his wife's past life	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Never to leave the hut alone after dark for the rest of his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 leave	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 leave	mark
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 dark	case
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leave	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	to-infinitive		the hut			after dark	for the rest of his life; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hut=Theme for rest=Recipient

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