Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…
What did Ivan Golik request of the prince concerning the hosts of mice?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, concern, request · To what, where: Ivan request, hosts, prince
This is exam question 3 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 request | compound |
| 4 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | flat |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 request | nmod |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 prince | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hosts | det |
| 11 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mice | case |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hosts | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ivan request of the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the prince not said here | the hosts of mice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus host=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | request | the prince | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
that they be moved to the barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 barn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 barn | det |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | infinitive · passive | that | the barn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to barn=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
that they be given place without harm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 harm | case |
| 7 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive · passive | that | without harm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient place=Theme |
Option 3
that they be given a tax exemption and a formal pardon from the king's court
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 exemption | det |
| 6 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exemption | compound |
| 7 | exemption | exemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pardon | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pardon | det |
| 10 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pardon | amod |
| 11 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exemption | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 court | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive · passive | that | the king's court | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient exemption=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
that the prince build them a new granary and protect them from the cats and the dogs
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 build | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | nsubj |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 build | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 granary | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 granary | amod |
| 8 | granary | granary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 protect | cc |
| 10 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 build | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 protect | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 cats | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cats | det |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 protect | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dogs | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dogs | det |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cats | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | infinitive | the prince | them = they | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary granary=Product | ||||
| 2 | protect | infinitive | the prince not said here | them = they | from the cats and the dogs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from cat=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1130-pg29672-part36/e3/