Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…

What material did the elderly woman employ for spinning upon arriving at the mound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: do, spin, arrive · To what, where: elderly woman employ, mound

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 employ	det
5	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 employ	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 spinning	mark
9	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 arriving	mark
11	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spinning	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 mound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mound	det
14	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arriving	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	material	the elderly woman employ		tree rules
2	spin	gerund	material not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	arrive	gerund	material not said here		the mound	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 raw flax from her basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flax	det
2	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flax	amod
3	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 basket	nmod:poss
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flax	nmod

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

Option 2

hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

tow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

flax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flax	flax	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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