Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

Which action did the eagle request of the archer before the final flight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: do, request · To what, where: eagle request, archer

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 request	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 archer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 archer	det
9	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	nmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	13 flight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flight	det
12	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flight	amod
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which action	the eagle request of the archer			before the final flight		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	request			the archer					nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

He asked for one more day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He				day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He asked to be lifted up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 lifted	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lifted	aux:pass
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 lifted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lift up not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive							vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He asked to be mounted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 mounted	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 mounted	aux:pass
5	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	He not said here						vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»

Option 4

He asked for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He					for food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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