Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Identify the substance which the Serpent King had swallowed and was compelled to return, as stipulated by the young girl.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Serpent King · What happens: identify, swallow, compel, return, stipulate · To what, where: substance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 swallowed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
6	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	compound
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 swallowed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swallowed	aux
9	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 substance	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 compelled	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 compelled	aux:pass
12	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 swallowed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 return	mark
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 compelled	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stipulated	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stipulated	mark
17	stipulated	stipulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 compelled	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 girl	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stipulated	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	swallow	past · perfect	the Serpent King	the substance		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	compel	past · passive	the Serpent King not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
4	return	to-infinitive	the Serpent King not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stipulate	participle	the Serpent King not said here		by the young girl	tree rules

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

The twelve ships of Mark the Rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ships	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ships	nummod
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mark	case
5	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ships	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rich	det
7	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mark	conj

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

Option 2

The twelve horses of the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horses	nmod

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

Option 3

The silver of Mark the Rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 silver	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Mark	case
4	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 silver	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rich	det
6	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mark	conj

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

Option 4

The twelve ships of Mark the Rich together with all their sailors and cargo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ships	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ships	nummod
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sailors	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mark	case
5	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ships	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rich	det
7	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mark	conj
8	together	together	ADV	_	12 sailors	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 sailors	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sailors	det:predet
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sailors	nmod:poss
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cargo	cc
14	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sailors	conj

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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