Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

In what place did the two demons emerge, as the granddaughter observed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two demons · What happens: emerge, observe · To what, where: granddaughter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 emerge	obl
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 emerge	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 demons	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 demons	nummod
7	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 emerge	nsubj
8	emerge	emerge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 granddaughter	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 granddaughter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 granddaughter	det
12	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emerge	obj
13	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 granddaughter	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 emerge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	emerge	past · do-support	the two demons	the granddaughter					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location granddaughter=Theme
2	observe	participle		the granddaughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

From the cellar below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 cellar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cellar	det
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	below	below	ADV	_	3 cellar	advmod

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

Option 2

Through the back door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

From a hidden trapdoor beneath the kitchen floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 trapdoor	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trapdoor	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trapdoor	amod
4	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floor	compound
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trapdoor	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

From beneath the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 stove	case
2	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 stove	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stove	det
4	stove	stove	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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