Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…
Which animal was the last to be captured and offered a gift in exchange for its release?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: be, capture, offer · To what, where: gift, exchange
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1114 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple trap the bear, wolf, fox and hare and grow rich» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 last | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 last | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 captured | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 captured | aux:pass |
| 8 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 last | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offered | cc |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 captured | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 exchange | case |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 release | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 release | nmod:poss |
| 17 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 exchange | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 last | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which animal | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | capture | to-infinitive · passive | which animal not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | offer | participle | which animal not said here | a gift | exchange for animal's release | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
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 hare, offered a gift to go free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hare | punct |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 offered | advcl |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the hare | a gift | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the hare not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
the ox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ox | det |
| 2 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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