Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel i…

Enumerate the cause adduced by the Tsarivna for her insistence upon the felling of the cherry-tree.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, her · What happens: enumerate, adduce, insist · To what, where: cause

This is exam question 3 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	Enumerate	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Enumerate	obj
4	adduced	adduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cause	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Tsarivna	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tsarivna	det
7	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 adduced	obl:agent
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 insistence	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 insistence	nmod:poss
10	insistence	insistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adduced	obl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 felling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 felling	det
13	felling	felling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 insistence	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cherry	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felling	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Enumerate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enumerate	imperative	you not said here	the cause		tree rules
2	adduce	participle		the cause not said here	for her insistence upon the felling of the cherry tree	tree rules
3	insist		her = she		upon the felling of the cherry tree	nom insistence «communication intransitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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

"That tree will be my ruin, cut it down today"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ruin	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ruin	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ruin	nmod:poss
7	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tree	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl:unmarked
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future		my ruin					tree rules
2	cut down in a quote	infinitive	that tree	ruin			today		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

"That tree will bring me grief"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	future	that tree	grief	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination grief=Theme

Option 3

"This tree blocks my garden"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blocks	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	nsubj
4	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 garden	nmod:poss
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block in a quote	present	this tree	my garden					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer garden=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"That tree will be my ruin"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ruin	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruin	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ruin	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ruin	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ruin	nmod:poss
7	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ruin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	that tree	my ruin					tree rules

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