Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

Which condition did Ivan Golik impose upon the prince regarding his spouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose, regard · To what, where: spouse

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Ivan	aux
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 condition	appos
5	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ivan	flat
6	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 impose	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spouse	nmod:poss
12	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regarding	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	present	which condition					upon the prince	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	regard	gerund	which condition not said here	condition's spouse					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hiding the matter from her for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hiding	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		the matter			year	from her = she	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent matter=Patient from she=Beneficiary

Option 2

Withholding the full truth of the bow and the horse from her for seven years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Withholding	withhold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 truth	amod
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Withholding	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bow	det
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truth	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horse	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Withholding	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Withholding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	withhold	gerund		the full truth of the bow and the horse			year	from horse	tree rules

Option 3

Keeping the bow secret from his kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 secret	compound
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 kin	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kin	nmod:poss
7	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		the bow secret		his kin			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from kin=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Withholding the truth from her for seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Withholding	withhold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Withholding	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Withholding	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Withholding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	withhold	gerund		the truth			year	from her = she	tree rules

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