Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…
Upon what condition did the Prince depart, leaving the Princess to await his return?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition, Prince, Princess · What happens: do, depart, leave, await, return · To what, where: Princess, return
This is exam question 3 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 depart | obl |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 depart | nsubj |
| 7 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaving | punct |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 depart | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 await | mark |
| 13 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leaving | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 return | nmod:poss |
| 15 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 await | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 depart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | condition | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | depart | present | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the Prince not said here | the Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | await | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | Prince's return | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | Prince | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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
one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a year and twelve weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeks | cc |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a year and nine weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeks | cc |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 year | conj |
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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