Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

Which object did the Simpleton claim to have sold to the Birch-tree, and for what sum of money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sell, sum · To what, where: Simpleton claim, Birch tree, money

This is exam question 1 of lesson 420 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birch, the gold, and the goat's head» 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 object	det
2	object	object	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	6 claim	det
5	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 claim	compound
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 sold	mark
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sold	aux
9	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 claim	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	Birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Birch	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sum	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sum	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 sum	case
18	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	19 sum	det
19	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 money	case
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sum	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the Simpleton claim		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality
2	sell	to-infinitive · perfect	which object not said here	the Simpleton claim not said here	the Birch tree	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient
3	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

An ox, for twenty roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ox	det
2	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roubles	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 roubles	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 roubles	nummod
6	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ox	conj

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

Option 2

An ox, free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ox	det
2	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 free	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ox	punct
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

A cow, ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ten	punct
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cow	appos

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

Option 4

A goat, for twenty roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roubles	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 roubles	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 roubles	nummod
6	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goat	conj

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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