Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden

Upon what condition did Marusia consent to marry the young seigneur, and for what duration was it stipulated?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marusia · What happens: consent, marry, stipulate · To what, where: young seigneur, duration

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consent	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consent	aux
5	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 consent	nsubj
6	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consent	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seigneur	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seigneur	amod
11	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 consent	conj
16	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stipulated	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stipulated	aux:pass
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stipulated	nsubj:pass
19	stipulated	stipulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 what	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 consent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consent	past · do-support	Marusia		upon condition	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive	Marusia not said here	the young seigneur		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seigneur=Patient
3	stipulate	past · passive		duration		tree rules

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

no church attendance for four years, with the guests sworn to silence on the matter

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 attendance	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attendance	compound
3	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attendance	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guests	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 guests	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guests	det
10	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attendance	nmod
11	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 guests	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 silence	mark
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sworn	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 matter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 matter	det
16	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sworn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	participle		the guests not said here		the matter			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

no church attendance for four years, and he must never ask her about the Fiend

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 attendance	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attendance	compound
3	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attendance	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 ask	advmod
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 Fiend	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fiend	det
16	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	must	no church attendance for four years		her = she			about the Fiend	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about fiend=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no church attendance for four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 attendance	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attendance	compound
3	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attendance	nmod

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

Option 4

a vow not to kneel for seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vow	det
2	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kneel	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 kneel	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kneel	mark
5	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kneel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kneel	to-infinitive	a vow				year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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