Exam question 3 · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

What was the principal impediment to King Kojata's acquisition of the golden jug?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal impediment, King · What happens: be, acquire · To what, where: golden jug

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» 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	5 impediment	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 impediment	amod
5	impediment	impediment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 acquisition	case
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 acquisition	nmod:poss
8	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	flat
9	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
10	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 impediment	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 jug	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jug	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 jug	amod
14	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquisition	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal impediment to King's acquisition of the golden jug						tree rules
2	acquire		King	the golden jug					nom acquisition «act 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its habit of eluding his grasp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 habit	nmod:poss
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 eluding	mark
4	eluding	elude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 habit	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grasp	nmod:poss
6	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eluding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elude	gerund	Its habit not said here	his grasp					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent grasp=Location
2	grasp		his = he						nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The jug's heavy weight and size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jug	det
2	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weight	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 jug	case
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weight	amod
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 size	cc
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weight	conj

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

Option 3

Its golden shine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shine	nmod:poss
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shine	amod
3	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The river's cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 river	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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