Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…

Which item was the nobleman's purse said to contain, apart from coins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: item · What happens: be, say, contain · To what, where: purse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1124 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an old man is sent to school, a nobleman gives him a purse, and his sons are tricked» 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 item	det
2	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 purse	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nobleman	det
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 purse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 nobleman	case
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 contain	mark
10	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 apart	punct
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 contain	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 coins	case
14	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 apart	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nobleman's purse		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	which item			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	contain	to-infinitive	which item not said here		apart property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 little sack hidden in the lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sack	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		a little sack not said here		the lid			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lid=Location

Option 2

a little note tucked in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 note	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 note	amod
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 note	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	participle		a little note not said here		the middle			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in middle=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"a little sack in the middle of it"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sack	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sack	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sack	amod
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sack	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 middle	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sack	punct

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

Option 4

a silver clasp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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