Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

What was the sentence imposed upon the protagonist by the royal council?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, impose · To what, where: sentence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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	4 sentence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sentence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sentence	det
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sentence	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 protagonist	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protagonist	det
8	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imposed	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 council	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 council	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 council	amod
12	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imposed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sentence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sentence					tree rules
2	impose	participle		the sentence not said here				upon the protagonist; by the royal council	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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

Imprisonment in a stone tower until death by starvation and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tower	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	compound
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imprisonment	nmod
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 starvation	case
9	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cold	cc
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 starvation	conj

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

Option 2

Being tarred, feathered and sent to the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tarred	aux:pass
2	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feathered	punct
4	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tarred	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tarred	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tar	gerund · passive							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»
2	send	participle				the forest			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to forest=Destination

Option 3

Imprisonment in a high stone tower with the cat until death by starvation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 tower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tower	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tower	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	compound
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imprisonment	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	nmod
10	until	until	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 starvation	case
13	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imprisonment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imprison		starvation			a high stone tower with the cat until death			nom imprisonment «act transitive»: in=place by=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Imprisonment in a stone tower until death by starvation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tower	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	compound
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imprisonment	nmod
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 starvation	case
9	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tower	nmod

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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