Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 39: Iwanich…

What was the outcome of Iwanich's disobedience in opening the iron door of the north tower?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: outcome, disobedience, Iwanich · What happens: be, open, disobey · To what, where: iron door

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1715 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 39: Iwanich frees a hare, breaks a forbidden door and becomes a witch's servant» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 disobedience	case
6	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 disobedience	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Iwanich	case
8	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 opening	mark
10	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 disobedience	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 door	amod
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opening	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
16	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tower	compound
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the outcome of Iwanich's disobedience		tree rules
2	open	gerund	Iwanich's disobedience not said here	the iron door of the north tower	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	disobey		Iwanich		nom disobedience «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

Militza returned in a rage, and the palace was locked up with him still inside it.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Militza	Militza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 rage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rage	det
5	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 locked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 locked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 locked	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 locked	aux:pass
11	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 returned	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 locked	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 locked	obl
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 it	advmod
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 locked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Militza			a rage			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lock up	past · passive		the palace		rage		with Militza	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The palace and its contents vanished, leaving him alone upon a desolate heath.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 contents	cc
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 contents	nmod:poss
5	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 palace	conj
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaving	punct
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 vanished	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaving	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leaving	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 heath	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 heath	det
13	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heath	compound
14	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vanished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	the palace and its contents				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	the palace and its contents not said here	him = he	a desolate heath	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon heath=Location
3	desolate	infinitive					tree rules

Option 3

The palace was destroyed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroyed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destroyed	aux:pass
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 destroyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive		the palace					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

He was turned into stone.

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	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		He		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory

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