Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the O…

Which object did the Prince fasten the rope to in order to defeat his brothers' design?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, brothers · What happens: fasten, defeat, design · To what, where: rope, design

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1532 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the Other World: the brothers' trick and the Prince as a tailor's lad» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fasten	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fasten	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fasten	nsubj
6	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fasten	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 order	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 to	fixed
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fasten	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 defeat	mark
13	defeat	defeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fasten	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 design	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 brothers	case
17	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 defeat	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fasten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · do-support	which object	the rope	to order	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to order=Co-Patient
2	defeat	to-infinitive	which object not said here	Prince's brothers's design		tree rules
3	design		Prince's brothers			nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

A barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 barrel	det
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A pillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pillar	det
2	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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