Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

In which city did the Spider's messengers claim the Spider had been executed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: messengers · What happens: do, claim, execute · To what, where: city, Spider · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 city	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Spider	det
6	Spider	Spider	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 messengers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Spider	case
8	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 claim	nsubj
9	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Spider	det
11	Spider	Spider	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 executed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 executed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 executed	aux:pass
14	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 claim	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			which city	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	present	the Spider's messengers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	execute	past · perfect · passive		the Spider		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Kazan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the great city of Nizhny Novgorod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Nizhny	case
5	Nizhny	Nizhny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod
6	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Nizhny	flat

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

Option 3

Perm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Tula

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tula	Tula	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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