Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fit…

What consequence did the parson warn of should the egg be broken upon the highway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consequence, parson · What happens: do, warn, break · To what, where: parson

This is exam question 3 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	consequence	consequence	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 parson	det
5	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	nsubj:pass
6	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 parson	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 warn	obl
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 egg	det
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	nsubj:pass
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 broken	aux:pass
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	ccomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 highway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 highway	det
15	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	consequence			tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	infinitive	the parson not said here			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	break	should · passive		the parson	upon the highway	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

ruin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the loss of his cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cattle	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cattle	nmod:poss
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loss	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the loss of all luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 luck	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 luck	det
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod

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

Option 4

bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 luck	amod
2	luck	luck	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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