Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…
What did the brothers find inside the casket when it was opened in the presence of the people?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: do, find, open · To what, where: casket, presence
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 casket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 casket | det |
| 8 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 opened | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 presence | det |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 presence | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | find | present | the brothers | the casket | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | past · passive | casket | the presence of the people | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in presence=Location |
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
old broken stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stones | amod |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stones | amod |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"nothing but glass"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 glass | cc |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nothing | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a small dry note
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 note | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 note | amod |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 note | amod |
| 4 | note | note | 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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