Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

What condition did Ivan Golik impose upon the prince regarding disclosure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose, regard

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» 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	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	11 disclosure	case
11	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prince	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	present	what condition					upon the prince regard disclosure	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

That he must not tell his wife the truth for seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tell	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	must	he	That	his wife		year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That he must not tell his wife the truth for seven years, or else he would be cut in two by the court

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tell	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 truth	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
15	else	else	ADV	_	19 cut	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj:pass
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	aux:pass
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tell	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 two	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cut	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 court	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 court	det
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	must	he	That	his wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic
2	cut	would · passive	the court	he		two		else property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 3

Never to speak of it to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 speak	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 speak	mark
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speak	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive						of it; to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 4

That he must hide the truth from the court for a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hide	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hide	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

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

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