Exam question 1 · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

Which of the following was the serpent's first task to the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 task	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	10 task	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 task	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 task	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 task	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 serpent	case
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 task	amod
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 task	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past						of the serpent's first task; to the prince	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

Threshing three hundred ricks of corn before the morning light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ricks	nummod
4	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Threshing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 corn	case
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ricks	nmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 light	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 light	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	compound
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threshing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	gerund		hundred ricks of corn			before the morning light		tree rules
2	rick			corn					nom rick «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Threshing three hundred ricks of corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ricks	nummod
4	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Threshing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 corn	case
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ricks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	gerund		hundred ricks of corn					tree rules
2	rick			corn					nom rick «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Threshing and sifting all of the three hundred ricks of corn in the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sifting	cc
3	sifting	sift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Threshing	conj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Threshing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 ricks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ricks	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ricks	nummod
9	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 corn	case
11	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ricks	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 barn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barn	det
14	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thresh	gerund	all	the barn	tree rules
2	sift	gerund			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	rick		corn		nom rick «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Threshing the barley in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threshing	thresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barley	det
3	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threshing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threshing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	gerund		the barley		the field			tree rules

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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