Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fit…

How many dogs protected the servant, and by what names were they known?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many dogs · What happens: protect, know · To what, where: servant, names

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protected	nsubj
4	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protected	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 protected	parataxis
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 known	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux:pass
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 known	nsubj
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 what	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 protected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	past	many dogs	the servant					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Beneficiary
2	know	past · passive		names					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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

three, named Sokol and Bruno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 three	acl
4	Sokol	Sokol	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Bruno	cc
6	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sokol	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

two, named Chutko and Vazhko, and a third dog nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Vazhko	cc
6	Vazhko	Vazhko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chutko	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dog	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dog	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl:agent
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	11 dog	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle · passive	a third dog	two					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

two big dogs, named Chutko and Vazhko, guarding the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dogs	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 named	punct
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dogs	acl
6	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Vazhko	cc
8	Vazhko	Vazhko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chutko	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guarding	punct
10	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dogs	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		two big dogs not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	guard	gerund		the whole village					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two, named Chutko and Vazhko

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 two	acl
4	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Vazhko	cc
6	Vazhko	Vazhko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chutko	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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