Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

Which of the three brothers is described in the narrative as a fool?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 described	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 brothers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 described	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 described	aux:pass
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 narrative	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrative	det
10	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 described	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 fool	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fool	det
13	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 described	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive				the narrative		of the three brothers; as a fool	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: which=Theme as fool=Attribute

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

the younger brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the youngest brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the third brother who kept the gun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gun	det
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the third brother	the gun					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

Option 4

the middle brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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