Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…
What object did the Smith have painted upon the door of the smithy?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: paint · To what, where: door
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Smith | det |
| 5 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | aux |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 smithy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smithy | det |
| 13 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · perfect · do-support | the door of the smithy | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon door=Destination |
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
A grinning Demon with horns and a tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Demon | det |
| 2 | grinning | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Demon | amod |
| 3 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 horns | case |
| 5 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Demon | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tail | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tail | det |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horns | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A Dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A Demon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Demon | det |
| 2 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Devil himself in a red coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Devil | det |
| 2 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Devil | nmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coat | amod |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Devil | nmod |
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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