Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks…
What precisely did the old she-dragon demand of the archer in exchange for restoring the ox to the egg?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, demand, restore · To what, where: ox, egg
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 demand | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 demand | amod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 demand | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 she | punct |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demand | compound |
| 9 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 archer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 archer | det |
| 12 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demand | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 exchange | case |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 archer | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 restoring | mark |
| 16 | restoring | restore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ox | det |
| 18 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restoring | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 egg | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restoring | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | precisely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | she | of the archer in exchange | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | restore | gerund | the ox | the egg | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ox=Theme to egg=Recipient |
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
His horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
What he had at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 had | obj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
Option 3
The child that was just born at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 born | advmod |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 child | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the child | home | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
All of his cattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cattle | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 All | nmod |
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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