Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

What sentence did the Tsar pronounce upon the wicked coachman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence, Tsar · What happens: do, pronounce

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	sentence	sentence	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	5 Tsar	det
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pronounce	nsubj
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 coachman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coachman	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coachman	amod
10	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pronounce	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	sentence						tree rules
2	pronounce	present	the Tsar					upon the wicked coachman	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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

to be tied to four wild horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 tied	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 tied	aux:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 horses	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horses	nummod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horses	amod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	to-infinitive · passive						to four wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to horse=Co-Patient

Option 2

to be drowned in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 drowned	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 drowned	aux:pass
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	to-infinitive · passive				the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

Option 3

to be tied to four wild horses and dragged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 tied	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 tied	aux:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 horses	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horses	nummod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horses	amod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragged	cc
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	to-infinitive · passive						to four wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to horse=Co-Patient
2	drag	participle							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

to be burned at the stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 burned	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 stake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stake	det
6	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	to-infinitive · passive				the stake			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: at stake=Location

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