Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel i…

State the particular article of apparel in which the protagonist locates the source of his strength upon the first occasion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: protagonist · What happens: locate, article · To what, where: source, State particular article, apparel

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 article	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 article	det
3	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 article	amod
4	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 apparel	case
6	apparel	apparel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 article	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 locates	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 protagonist	det
10	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 locates	nsubj
11	locates	locate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 article	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 source	det
13	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 locates	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 strength	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 strength	nmod:poss
16	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 source	nmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 occasion	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 occasion	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 occasion	amod
20	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 locates	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 article	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	locate	present	the protagonist	the source of protagonist's strength		the State particular article of apparel		upon the first occasion	tree rules
2	article			apparel					nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

helmet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the gloves his mother had sewn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gloves	det
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sewn	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sewn	aux
6	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 gloves	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past · perfect	his mother	the gloves not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the iron gauntlets he wore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 iron	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gauntlets	nsubj
3	gauntlets	gauntlet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gauntlets	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gauntlet	present	the iron						tree rules
2	wear	past	iron						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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/1112-pg29672-part18/e2/