Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

What was the principal consequence of the Tsar's order to his councillors?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tsar · What happens: be, order · To what, where: principal consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 order	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tsar	det
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 order	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Tsar	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 councillors	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 councillors	nmod:poss
13	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 order	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of the Tsar's order to his councillors	tree rules
2	order		the Tsar					to his councillors	nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=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

They questioned the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 questioned	nsubj
2	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 questioned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	They	the guards					vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They measured every maiden's foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	nsubj
2	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	They	every maiden's foot					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value

Option 3

They searched every maiden's chamber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chamber	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	They	every maiden's chamber					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent chamber=Location

Option 4

They questioned each maiden's family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 questioned	nsubj
2	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 questioned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	They	each maiden's family					vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient

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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