Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden

Which character, having been advised by her blind grandmother, requested burial at a crossway where four roads meet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: blind grandmother, four roads · What happens: advise, request, meet · To what, where: character

This is exam question 1 of lesson 413 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 advised	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 character	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 advised	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 advised	aux:pass
6	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 grandmother	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandmother	nmod:poss
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandmother	amod
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 advised	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 burial	punct
12	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 burial	amod
13	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandmother	appos
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 crossway	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 crossway	det
16	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burial	nmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 meet	advmod
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 roads	nummod
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meet	nsubj
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 crossway	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 advised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	advise speech: other	gerund · perfect · passive	her blind grandmother	which character	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	request	participle			vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	meet	infinitive	four roads		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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

The young seigneur's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seigneur	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seigneur	amod
3	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 seigneur	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The blind grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandmother	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	amod
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Natalka

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Natalka	Natalka	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Marusia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	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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