Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…

What knowledge did the man acquire after the third kiss, as reported in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knowledge, man · What happens: do, acquire, report · To what, where: text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1111 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17: the Serpent's three kisses, and Daniel's lucky gifts from a serpent-lady» 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	3 did	obj
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	nsubj
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 kiss	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kiss	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 kiss	amod
10	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reported	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 reported	mark
13	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 acquire	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 text	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 text	det
16	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reported	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	knowledge			tree rules
2	acquire	infinitive	the man		after the third kiss	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	report	participle	the man not said here	the text		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: 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

Knowledge of all that is going on under the earth and under the sea below the mountains

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Knowledge	nmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 going	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sea	cc
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 earth	conj
15	below	below	ADP	_	17 mountains	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sea	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	Knowledge of all			the earth and the sea below the mountains			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under earth=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Knowledge of all that is going on under the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Knowledge	nmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 going	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	Knowledge of all			the earth			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under earth=Location

Option 3

Knowledge of all the stars in the sky above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 stars	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stars	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stars	det
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowledge	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stars	nmod
9	above	above	ADV	_	8 sky	advmod

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

Option 4

Knowledge of every secret buried in the earth, in the graves and the mines of every land

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 secret	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knowledge	nmod
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 secret	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 graves	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 graves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 graves	det
12	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowledge	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mines	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mines	det
15	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowledge	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mines	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle		every secret not said here		the earth			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in earth=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1111-pg29672-part17/e1/