Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fit…

What stipulation did the Iron Wolf impose upon the servant in exchange for the cattle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stipulation, Iron Wolf · What happens: do, impose · To what, where: exchange

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	stipulation	stipulation	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	6 Wolf	det
5	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wolf	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 impose	nsubj
7	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 servant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 impose	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 exchange	case
12	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 impose	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 cattle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cattle	det
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exchange	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	stipulation						tree rules
2	impose	present	the Iron Wolf			exchange for the cattle		upon the servant	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

that he devour him upon sitting on the bridal bench at the wedding feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 devour	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	nsubj
3	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 devour	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bench	det
9	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bench	amod
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
13	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feast	compound
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	infinitive	he	him = he					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	sit	gerund	he not said here			the bridal bench		at the wedding feast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

Option 2

that he devour him upon sitting on the bridal bench and keep the cattle forever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 devour	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	nsubj
3	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 devour	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bench	det
9	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bench	amod
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 devour	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cattle	det
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	devour	infinitive	he	him = he			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	sit	gerund	he not said here		the bridal bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
3	keep	infinitive	he not said here	the cattle		forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that he take the servant's life at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 take	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 life	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 servant	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive	he	the servant's life		the table			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme at table=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that he devour him upon sitting on the bridal bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 devour	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	nsubj
3	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devour	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 devour	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bench	det
9	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bench	amod
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	infinitive	he	him = he					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	sit	gerund	he not said here			the bridal bench			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

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