Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

With reference to the narrative, identify the object which the Mother of the Winds bestowed upon the bride.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Mother · What happens: identify, bestow · To what, where: object

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1121 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the bride trades apples for nights with her husband» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 narrative	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bestowed	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mother	det
12	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bestowed	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Winds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Winds	det
15	Winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Mother	nmod
16	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 object	acl:relcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 bride	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bride	det
19	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bestowed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object				with reference to the narrative	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	bestow	past	the Mother of the Winds	the object				upon the bride	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

the little silver apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apple	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apple	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apple	compound
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a small silver comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 comb	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 comb	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comb	compound
4	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the little silver apple from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apple	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apple	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apple	compound
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apple	nmod

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

Option 4

a silver bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	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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