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

What was the principal emotion the Fiend displayed at the girl's bereavement?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, display, bereave · To what, where: principal emotion, bereavement

This is exam question 4 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=Rel	8 displayed	nsubj:outer
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 emotion	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 emotion	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 emotion	amod
5	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fiend	det
7	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 displayed	nsubj
8	displayed	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 bereavement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bereavement	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 girl	case
13	bereavement	bereavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 displayed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 displayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal emotion		tree rules
2	display	past			the girl's bereavement	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	bereave		the girl			nom bereavement «state transitive»: poss=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

Deep and sincere grief for the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grief	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sincere	cc
3	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Deep	conj
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grief	nmod

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

Option 2

Apparent sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apparent	apparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sadness	amod
2	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Feigned sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sorrow	amod
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	participle							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	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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