Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…
Which weapon did the Prince employ to sever the six heads of the Dragon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weapon · What happens: do, sever · To what, where: Prince employ, six heads
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 weapon | det |
| 2 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 employ | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sever | mark |
| 8 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heads | det |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 heads | nummod |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sever | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dragon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dragon | det |
| 14 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heads | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which weapon | the Prince employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sever | to-infinitive | which weapon not said here | the six heads of the Dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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 long sword of two fathoms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fathoms | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fathoms | nummod |
| 6 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sword | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a short blade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blade | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blade | amod |
| 3 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a broadsword of one fathom in length
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 broadsword | det |
| 2 | broadsword | broadsword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fathom | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fathom | nummod |
| 5 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broadsword | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fathom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
an iron sword of great length
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 length | amod |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sword | nmod |
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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