Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the O…

What became of the youngest bride's ring when she met the Prince disguised as a beggar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bride, Prince · What happens: become, meet, disguise

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 ring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bride	case
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 met	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 disguised	nsubj
14	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 met	ccomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 beggar	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 beggar	det
17	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disguised	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past		of the youngest bride's ring	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	meet	past	bride		tree rules
3	disguise	past	the Prince	as a beggar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

She recognized it upon his hand

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 recognized	nsubj
2	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recognized	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recognized	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	She	it				upon his hand	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

She gave it to her sisters

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sisters	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	it	her sisters				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sister=Recipient

Option 3

She lost it in the hall

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	She	it		the hall			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

She sold it to the King

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 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	She	it	the King				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient

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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