Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

With reference to the narrative, specify the substance administered by the Empress to the Tsarevich prior to the first night.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, administer · To what, where: substance

This is exam question 3 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 specify	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	specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 substance	det
9	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 specify	obj
10	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 substance	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Empress	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Empress	det
13	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 administered	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 prior	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prior	det
16	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 prior	compound
17	prior	prior	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Empress	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 night	amod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 administered	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the substance				with reference to the narrative	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	administer	participle		the substance not said here			night	by the Empress to the Tsarevich prior	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a sleeping draught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 draught	det
2	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 draught	amod
3	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a cup of bitter broth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 broth	case
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 broth	amod
5	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 3

a potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a sour sleepy tonic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tonic	det
2	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sleepy	amod
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tonic	amod
4	tonic	tonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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