Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…

By what means did the younger son of the prince survive his period within the whale?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: younger son · What happens: mean, do, survive · To what, where: younger son, period · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survive	obl
11	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 son	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 period	nmod:poss
13	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survive	obj
14	within	within	ADP	_	16 whale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 whale	det
16	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survive	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the younger son		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
3	survive	infinitive	the younger son not said here	his period	of the prince; within the whale	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme period=Circumstance

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

by drinking sea water and rum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rum	cc
6	rum	rum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		sea water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by burning the wagon wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 burning	mark
2	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wood	compound
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund		the wagon wood					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by smoking the tobacco-pipes found within

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 smoking	mark
2	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pipes	det
4	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipes	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tobacco	punct
6	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smoking	obj
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pipes	acl
8	within	within	ADP	_	7 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	gerund		the tobacco pipes					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
2	find	participle		the tobacco pipes not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

by eating fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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