Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

With reference to the narrative, state the sum the Empress proffered in exchange for the golden apple.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Empress · What happens: state, proffer · To what, where: sum, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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 state	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	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sum	det
9	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Empress	det
11	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 proffered	nsubj
12	proffered	proffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 state	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 exchange	case
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proffered	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 apple	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 apple	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apple	amod
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exchange	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the sum				with reference to the narrative	tree rules
2	proffer	past	the Empress			exchange for the golden apple			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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

all her coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 coins	det:predet
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coins	nmod:poss
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		her = she						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

a sack of coins for the apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sack	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 apple	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

many pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pence	amod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

as many pence as the lap could hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pence	amod
3	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	nsubj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 lap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lap	det
6	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pence	nmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	could	many pence as the lap						vn exist-47.1 «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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