Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…

What was the final condition of the rich brother's dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: final condition

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 dwelling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brother	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelling	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 brother	case
11	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final condition				of the rich brother's dwelling	tree rules

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

reduced to a ruin of charred beams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ruin	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ruin	det
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reduced	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 beams	case
6	charred	char	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 beams	amod
7	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ruin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle		to a ruin of charred beams goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to ruin=Goal
2	char	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	ruin		charred beams		nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

reduced to a pile of stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 pile	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pile	det
4	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reduced	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle						to a pile of stones goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to pile=Goal

Option 3

burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

reduced to a heap of ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 heap	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heap	det
4	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reduced	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ashes	case
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle						to a heap of ashes goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to heap=Goal

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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