Exam question 1 · Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone sc…

Which of the following best describes the outcome of Ivan's dropping of the millstone into the robbers' cauldron?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, describe · To what, where: outcome, cauldron

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1125 «Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone scatters robbers, and his magic fife sets a parson dancing into a hedge» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 describes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 best	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 best	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 describes	nmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outcome	det
8	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 dropping	case
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dropping	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Ivan	case
12	dropping	dropping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outcome	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 millstone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 millstone	det
15	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropping	nmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	20 cauldron	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 robbers	det
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cauldron	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 robbers	case
20	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the outcome of Ivan's dropping of the millstone		the robbers's cauldron		of the best	tree rules

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

The robbers ate the soup and then went home to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soup	det
5	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the robbers	the soup					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
2	go	past	the robbers not said here			bed	then	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 2

They fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The robbers fled in terror, leaving their booty behind for the brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fled	nsubj
3	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 terror	case
5	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaving	punct
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fled	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 booty	nmod:poss
9	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obj
10	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 leaving	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brothers	det
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the robbers			terror			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	the robbers not said here	robbers's booty				for the brothers; behind property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent booty=Theme for brother=Recipient

Option 4

Robbers ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Robbers						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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