Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

Which tool did the princess furnish to the bridegroom for the felling of the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tool · What happens: furnish · To what, where: bridegroom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1238 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a ship saves the boy, and the king sets three 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 tool	det
2	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furnish	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 furnish	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furnish	nsubj
6	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bridegroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridegroom	det
9	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furnish	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 felling	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 felling	det
12	felling	felling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furnish	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felling	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 furnish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	furnish	past · do-support	which tool		the bridegroom			for the felling of the forest	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bridegroom=Recipient

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

an axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saw	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a heavy iron mallet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mallet	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mallet	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mallet	compound
4	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sharp axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axe	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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