Exam question 1 · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Which action did Prince Ivan perform in order to construct the bridge across the fiery river?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, Prince Ivan · What happens: do, perform, construct · To what, where: bridge, fiery river

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his bride» 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	compound
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 construct	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 construct	mark
10	construct	construct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 perform	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 construct	obj
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 construct	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which action			tree rules
2	perform	present	Prince Ivan			tree rules
3	construct	to-infinitive	Prince Ivan not said here	the bridge	the fiery river	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

He waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 handkerchief	det
4	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hand	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hand	amod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	the handkerchief		the right hand	time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient

Option 2

He waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand over the fiery water below

The tree, 15 words

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 handkerchief	det
4	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hand	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hand	amod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
13	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
15	below	below	ADV	_	14 water	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	the handkerchief		the right hand	time	over the fiery water	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, then twice on the left, and the bridge appeared

The tree, 19 words

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 handkerchief	det
4	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hand	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hand	amod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 left	advmod
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 left	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 left	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 left	det
16	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hand	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appeared	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridge	det
20	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appeared	nsubj
21	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	the handkerchief		the right hand and the left	time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
2	appear	past	the bridge						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He waved the cloth four times on the right side

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloth	det
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	the cloth		the right side	time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient

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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