Exam question 2 · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

What was the fate of the Baba Yaga when the bridge collapsed beneath her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bridge · What happens: be, collapse · To what, where: fate

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Yaga	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Yaga	det
7	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Yaga	compound
8	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 collapsed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 collapsed	nsubj
12	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	advcl
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 collapsed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fate				of the Baba Yaga	tree rules
2	collapse	past	the bridge					beneath her = she	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

She drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowned	nsubj
2	drowned	drown	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	drown	past	She						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She fell into the river and perished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 perished	cc
7	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She					into the river result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
2	perish	participle	She not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

She tumbled into the water and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tumbled	nsubj
2	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tumbled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tumbled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	past	She			the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
2	die	past	She not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She was burned in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		She		the fire			tree rules

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