Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fit…

Which instrument did the councillors employ to determine the identity of the bride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument, councillors · What happens: do, employ, determine · To what, where: identity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1116 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fits, a servant makes a deal and runs from a wolf» 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	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	5 councillors	det
5	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 determine	mark
8	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 identity	det
10	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 determine	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bride	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bride	det
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 identity	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which instrument		tree rules
2	employ	present	the councillors		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	determine	to-infinitive	the councillors not said here	the identity of the bride	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic

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

a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the golden slippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slippers	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slippers	amod
3	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the embroidered sash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sash	det
2	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sash	amod
3	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «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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