Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

Subsequent to the burning of the incense, which celestial being descended to address the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: descend, address · To what, where: celestial, youth

This is exam question 4 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	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 burning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 burning	det
4	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Subsequent	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 incense	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 incense	det
7	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burning	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 descended	punct
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 celestial	det
10	celestial	celestial	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 descended	nsubj:pass
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 descended	aux:pass
12	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 incense	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 address	mark
14	address	address	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 descended	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 address	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Subsequent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	gerund · passive		which celestial					tree rules
2	address	to-infinitive		the youth					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=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

A saint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saint	det
2	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A demon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 demon	det
2	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An angel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	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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