Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…

What was the final destination to which the Serpent directed the man, as recorded in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Serpent · What happens: be, direct, record · To what, where: final destination, man, text

This is exam question 4 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	5 destination	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destination	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 destination	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 destination	amod
5	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 directed	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Serpent	det
9	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 directed	nsubj
10	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destination	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 directed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recorded	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 recorded	mark
15	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 directed	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 text	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 text	det
18	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recorded	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 destination	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final destination			tree rules
2	direct	past	the Serpent	the man		to the final destination	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	record	participle	the Serpent not said here		the text		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=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 palace of the king

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	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 palace	nmod

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

Option 2

The Tsar's gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tsar	det
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gate	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tsar	case
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The court of the Tsar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 court	det
2	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Tsar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tsar	det
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 court	nmod

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

Option 4

The city of the Tsar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Tsar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tsar	det
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 city	nmod

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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