Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

What did the king require before the marriage might be celebrated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, require, celebrate · To what, where: marriage

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 require	nsubj
5	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 celebrated	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marriage	det
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 celebrated	nsubj:pass
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 celebrated	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 celebrated	aux:pass
11	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 require	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	require	present	the king		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	celebrate	might · passive		the marriage	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

three tasks to be performed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tasks	nummod
2	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 performed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 performed	aux:pass
5	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tasks	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	to-infinitive · passive							vn performance-26.7 «NP V»

Option 2

three tasks and a ship to be sailed first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tasks	nummod
2	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ship	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tasks	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sailed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sailed	aux:pass
8	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ship	acl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	to-infinitive · passive						first property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»

Option 3

a golden crown to wear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crown	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	to-infinitive							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the burning of the pitch to be finished at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 burning	det
2	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pitch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pitch	det
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 finished	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 finished	aux:pass
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 finished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	to-infinitive · passive		the burning of the pitch					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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