Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…
What recompense did the Boyar bestow upon the peasant?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: recompense, Boyar · What happens: do, bestow
This is exam question 3 of lesson 418 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon from a pit and cures the town» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 recompense | det |
| 2 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Boyar | det |
| 5 | Boyar | Boyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | nsubj |
| 6 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what recompense | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the Boyar | upon the peasant | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His daughter and half his property
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 property | cc |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 property | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 property | nmod:poss |
| 6 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His daughter, his house and half his property
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 property | cc |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 property | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 property | nmod:poss |
| 9 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A horse and his estate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 estate | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 estate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His daughter and half of all his property
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 half | cc |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 daughter | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 property | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 property | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 property | nmod:poss |
| 8 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 half | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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