Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel i…

Describe the transformation undergone by the protagonist following the application of the chain.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, protagonist, chain · What happens: describe, undergo, follow, apply · To what, where: transformation, application

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 transformation	det
3	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 transformation	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 protagonist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 protagonist	det
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undergone	obl
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 protagonist	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 application	det
10	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 chain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chain	det
13	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 application	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the transformation		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme
2	undergo	participle		the transformation not said here	by the protagonist	tree rules
3	follow	gerund	the protagonist not said here	the application of the chain		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme
4	apply		the chain			nom application «act intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

into a beautiful horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

into a magnificent black horse with silver hooves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	5 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
3	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hooves	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hooves	compound
8	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horse	nmod

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

Option 3

into a silver stallion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 stallion	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stallion	det
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stallion	compound
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

into a tall horse that could speak like a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 speak	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 speak	aux
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 horse	acl:relcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	a tall horse					like a man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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.

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