Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…

What did the old man threaten to fashion from the skin of the hare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man · What happens: threaten, fashion · To what, where: skin

This is exam question 4 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	6 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threaten	nsubj
6	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fashion	mark
8	fashion	fashion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 threaten	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skin	det
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fashion	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hare	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hare	det
14	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skin	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the old man						tree rules
2	fashion not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			the skin of the hare			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from skin=Material

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 right answer

gloves and mittens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mittens	cc
3	mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gloves	conj

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

Option 2

a fine pair of gloves and mittens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pair	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pair	amod
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gloves	case
5	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pair	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mittens	cc
7	mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gloves	conj

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

Option 3

boots and socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 socks	cc
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boots	conj

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

Option 4

gloves, mittens and a warm hood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mittens	punct
3	mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gloves	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hood	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hood	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hood	amod
7	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gloves	conj

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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