Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…
Specify the number of days remaining in the Prince's term of service at the time the horses first escaped.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, days, horses, Prince · What happens: specify, remain, escape, term · To what, where: number, term, time, service
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 days | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 term | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 term | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 11 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remaining | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 service | case |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 term | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remaining | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horses | det |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 escaped | nsubj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 escaped | advmod |
| 20 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the number of days | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | gerund | days not said here | the Prince's term of service | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in term=Location | |||
| 3 | escape | past | the horses | the time not said here | first property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | term | the Prince | service | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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 · ✓ the right answer
Three days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 days | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 days | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Six days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 days | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Three days remained until the year ended.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 ended | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | nsubj |
| 7 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Three days | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | end | past | the year | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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