Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks…
By whom was the magic egg first broken during the archer's return journey?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: archer · What happens: be, break, journey · To what, where: magic egg
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1127 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks, the dragon claims Ivan, and his three tasks begin» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 egg | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 egg | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 egg | compound |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 broken | advmod |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 egg | acl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 archer | det |
| 11 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 archer | case |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 journey | compound |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 egg | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the magic egg | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | the magic egg not said here | during the archer's return journey | first property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | journey | the archer | nom journey «act transitive»: 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
The she-dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragon | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The archer's own horse, who stepped on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 archer | det |
| 2 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 archer | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stepped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the archer's own horse | on horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The archer himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 archer | det |
| 2 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 archer | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The eagle's uncle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 eagle | case |
| 4 | uncle | uncle | 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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