Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

What was the final abode of the Bad Wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: final abode · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 abode	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 abode	amod
5	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wife	det
8	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wife	amod
9	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abode	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the final abode of the Bad Wife						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

The pit in Tartarus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pit	det
2	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Tartarus	case
4	Tartarus	Tartarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pit	nmod

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

Option 2

The cellar of the Boyar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cellar	det
2	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Boyar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Boyar	det
5	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cellar	nmod

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

Option 3

The deep hole of Hades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hole	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hole	amod
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hades	case
5	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 hole	nmod

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

Option 4

Tartarus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tartarus	Tartarus	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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