Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

In accordance with the text, which object did the youth cast into the spring on the first occasion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, cast · To what, where: youth, accordance, first occasion

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 accordance	case
2	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accordance	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 youth	acl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 spring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spring	det
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 occasion	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 occasion	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 occasion	amod
19	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the youth		accordance with the text			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
2	cast	participle		the youth not said here		the first occasion	spring		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on occasion=Destination

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 gold pieces and his iron cap from the old house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cap	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cap	nmod:poss
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	compound
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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

Five gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	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

Three gold pieces from his master's purse, shining brightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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	from	from	ADP	_	8 purse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 master	case
8	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shining	punct
10	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pieces	conj
11	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	10 shining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund						brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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