Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

What did the Fiend predict concerning Marusia's mother?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fiend · What happens: predict, concern

This is exam question 3 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	5 predict	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 predict	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fiend	det
4	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 predict	nsubj
5	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 mother	case
7	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Marusia	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 predict	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 predict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict	past · do-support	the Fiend					concern Marusia's mother	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Topic
2	concern	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

That she would die on the following day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 die	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	That				day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That she would wed the youth the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	aux
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wed	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	would	That	the youth			day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient

Option 3

That she would fall ill tomorrow night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fall	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 night	compound
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	That				night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That she would die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 die	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	That						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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