Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…

Which implement did the poor man employ to secure the animal upon the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: implement · What happens: employ, secure · To what, where: animal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1130 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents, part 36: Ivan Golik joins the prince and saves the mice» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
7	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 secure	mark
9	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 employ	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secure	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secure	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which implement						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	secure	to-infinitive	which implement not said here	the animal				upon the mountain	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition animal=Theme

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 bridle and saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridle	det
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 saddle	cc
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bridle	conj

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

Option 2

the harness and whip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 harness	det
2	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 whip	cc
4	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harness	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the bit and reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 reins	cc
4	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bit	conj

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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