Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Which object did Marusia use to trace the youth to his dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: use, trace · To what, where: youth

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
4	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 trace	mark
7	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trace	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 dwelling	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dwelling	nmod:poss
12	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trace	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which object						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trace	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the youth				to Marusia's dwelling	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme

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

A long ball of red thread from her basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thread	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thread	amod
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ball	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 basket	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 basket	nmod:poss
9	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thread	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A ball of thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 thread	case
4	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ball	nmod

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

Option 3

A spool of silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spool	det
2	spool	spool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silk	case
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spool	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A cord of thread tied to her apron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cord	det
2	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 thread	case
4	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cord	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cord	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 apron	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 apron	nmod:poss
8	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a cord of thread not said here				to her apron	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to apron=Co-Patient

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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