Exam question 4 · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…
State the duration of the protagonist's journey to the forest, as recorded in the text.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, protagonist · What happens: state, record, journey · To what, where: duration, forest, text
This is exam question 4 of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 protagonist | det |
| 6 | protagonist | protagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 protagonist | case |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duration | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recorded | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 recorded | mark |
| 14 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 State | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 text | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 text | det |
| 17 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recorded | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the duration of the protagonist's journey | the forest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duration=Topic to forest=Recipient | |||
| 2 | record | participle | the text | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination | |||||
| 3 | journey | the protagonist | nom journey «act 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 · ✓ the right answer
Three whole days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three long nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nights | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nights | amod |
| 3 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three whole days and nights without any rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four whole days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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