Exam question 3 · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…
By whom was Koshchei the Deathless slain in the course of the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: be · To what, where: Deathless slain, course
This is exam question 3 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 slain | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | cop |
| 4 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slain | det |
| 6 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | compound |
| 7 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 course | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 course | det |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 narrative | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 narrative | det |
| 13 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 course | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 slain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Koshchei | the Deathless slain | the course of the narrative | tree rules |
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 his brothers in arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 brothers | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brothers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
By the steed and Prince Ivan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 steed | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Prince | cc |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 steed | appos |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By the horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 horse | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By the mare and Prince Ivan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 mare | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mare | det |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Prince | cc |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mare | appos |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | flat |
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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