Exam question 3 · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

To whom did the prince finally return the ring in the closing scene?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, return · To what, where: prince, ring, closing scene

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 return	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 return	advmod
7	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 scene	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 scene	det
12	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scene	compound
13	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	return	present		the ring		the closing scene		finally property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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

To the eldest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

To the youngest daughter, who had lost it long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lost	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 daughter	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	obj
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the youngest daughter	it				ago property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To the youngest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

To the youngest daughter in the palace garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	compound
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod

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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