Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

What was the outcome of the mouse Tsaritsa's order to the ants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsaritsa · What happens: be, order · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» 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	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
8	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 order	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Tsaritsa	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ants	det
13	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 order	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome and Tsaritsa's order to the ants				of the mouse	tree rules
2	order		Tsaritsa					to the ants	nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 birds lost all their wing feathers and the mouse took the grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 feathers	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feathers	compound
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grain	det
13	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the birds	birds's wing feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	take	past	the mouse	the grain					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme

Option 2

The birds lost their tail feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the birds	birds's tail feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The birds lost their wing feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the birds	birds's wing feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality

Option 4

The birds lost their wing feathers and fell down to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the birds	birds's wing feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	fall down	past	the birds not said here					to the ground; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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