Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Which term denotes the small Russian coin at the centre of the dispute?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: denote · To what, where: small Russian coin, centre

This is exam question 4 of lesson 419 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant tries to dodge paying one copeck and gets tricked» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coin	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 centre	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 centre	det
10	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dispute	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dispute	det
13	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 centre	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	which term	the small Russian coin		the centre of the dispute			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot coin=Topic

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

rouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

small Russian coin of low value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coin	amod
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coin	amod
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 value	case
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin			low value					nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

copeck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copeck	copeck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

moujik's coin of the Russian empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 moujik	case
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 empire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 empire	det
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 empire	amod
7	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		moujik	the Russian empire					nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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