Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his…
Which substance did the Raven employ to restore Prince Ivan's body?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: employ, restore · To what, where: body
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1514 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his wife, is chopped up and brought back to life» 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 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 employ | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Raven | det |
| 5 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 6 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 restore | mark |
| 8 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | xcomp |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ivan | compound |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ivan | case |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 restore | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 employ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · do-support | which substance | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | restore | to-infinitive | which substance not said here | Prince Ivan's body | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent body=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 grey water of the blue sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the Water of Death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Water | det |
| 2 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Death | case |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Water of Death from the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Water | det |
| 2 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Death | case |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Water | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Water of Life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Life | case |
| 3 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | nmod |
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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