Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…
Pursuant to the narrative, what quantity of gold pieces did the youth possess upon his departure from his master?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative, youth · What happens: do, possess, depart · To what, where: master
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» 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 | Pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 narrative | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrative | det |
| 4 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quantity | punct |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 quantity | det |
| 7 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 narrative | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | compound |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quantity | nmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 possess | nsubj |
| 14 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 departure | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 departure | nmod:poss |
| 17 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 possess | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 master | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 possess | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the narrative | pursuant property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | the youth | narrative's master | upon narrative's departure | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | depart | narrative | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
Twelve gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nine gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nine gold pieces, each one bearing the tsar's stamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | conj |
| 7 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pieces | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tsar | det |
| 9 | tsar | tsar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stamp | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 tsar | case |
| 11 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bearing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | gerund | Nine gold pieces and each one not said here | the tsar's stamp | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=Patient |
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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