Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

What was the response of the king upon perceiving the star upon the princess's forehead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: response · What happens: be, perceive · To what, where: response, star

This is exam question 3 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	4 response	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 response	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 response	det
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 response	nmod
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 perceiving	mark
9	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 response	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 star	det
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceiving	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 forehead	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forehead	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 princess	case
16	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceiving	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the response				of the king	tree rules
2	perceive	gerund	the response not said here	the star				upon the princess's forehead	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus

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

he ran out of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 hall	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he			the hall			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hall=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he fell on his knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he			his knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location

Option 3

he knelt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	nsubj
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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