Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…
What was the name of the feast celebrated by the village in the tale?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, celebrate · To what, where: name, feast, tale
This is exam question 1 of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» 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 name | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 8 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feast | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 celebrated | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 celebrated | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the name | of the feast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | participle | the feast not said here | the tale | by the village | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
The feast of St. Andrew the First-Called
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Andrew | case |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 feast | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Called | det |
| 7 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 Called | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 First | punct |
| 9 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 feast | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the feast of Andrew St. not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The feast of St. Michael the Archangel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Michael | case |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 feast | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Archangel | det |
| 7 | Archangel | Archangel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Michael | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
St. Andrew's feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 feast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Andrew | case |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Easter feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 2 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | compound |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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