Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

Which sum did the parson surrender to Ivan in exchange for his departure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sum · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: parson surrender, Ivan, exchange

This is exam question 4 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 sum	det
2	sum	sum	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 surrender	det
5	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrender	compound
6	surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ivan	case
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 departure	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 departure	nmod:poss
13	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which sum	the parson surrender	Ivan	exchange for sum's departure			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Eventuality
2	depart		sum						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Thirty karbovantsya gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 gold	nummod
2	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	compound
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One hundred karbovantsya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	list
3	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hundred	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

A coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 roubles	nummod
2	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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