Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his…
By what means did Prince Ivan cross the fiery river?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, cross · To what, where: Prince Ivan, fiery river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross | advcl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ivan | compound |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 9 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 river | amod |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cross | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | Prince Ivan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cross | present | the fiery river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
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
by way of a magic bridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 way | case |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bridge | compound |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by means of a scarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 means | case |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 scarf | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scarf | det |
| 5 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | of a scarf | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
by a handkerchief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 handkerchief | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 handkerchief | det |
| 3 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
by means of a handkerchief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 means | case |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 handkerchief | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | of a handkerchief | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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