Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

What object did the brothers place in the cellar in place of the Diachok's body?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: brothers place, cellar

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
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	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	compound
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cellar	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 body	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Diachok	det
14	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 body	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Diachok	case
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	brothers place		the cellar in place of the Diachok's body			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

A goat

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

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

Option 2

A sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The brothers' old milk cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cow	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 brothers	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	compound
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	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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