Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…
Which creature was first entangled in the Spider's snare?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Spider · What happens: entangle, snare · To what, where: creature
This is exam question 1 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» 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 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entangled | aux:pass |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 entangled | advmod |
| 5 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 snare | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spider | det |
| 8 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 snare | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Spider | case |
| 10 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entangled | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 entangled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entangle | past · passive | which creature | in the Spider's snare; first property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in snare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | snare | the Spider | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Gadfly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gadfly | det |
| 2 | Gadfly | Gadfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fly | det |
| 2 | Fly | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Gnat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gnat | det |
| 2 | Gnat | Gnat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Beetle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beetle | det |
| 2 | Beetle | Beetle | 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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