Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel i…

Identify the entity which, in the passage, conveys covert counsel to the Tsarivna.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: entity, covert counsel, Tsarivna, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1112 «Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel is betrayed, turned into a horse, and returns as a drake-man» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 entity	det
3	entity	entity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 conveys	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 passage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passage	det
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conveys	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passage	punct
10	conveys	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
11	covert	covert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 counsel	amod
12	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conveys	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Tsarivna	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tsarivna	det
15	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 conveys	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the entity					tree rules
2	convey	present		covert counsel	the Tsarivna	the passage			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic to tsarivna=Recipient

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 envious maids of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maids	det
2	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maids	amod
3	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maids	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the counsellors from the strange land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 counsellors	det
2	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counsellors	nmod

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

Option 3

the wicked steward of the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steward	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steward	amod
3	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steward	nmod

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

Option 4

a raven at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raven	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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