Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…
What sum did the Demon demand for transforming the lady into a young woman?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Demon demand · What happens: transform · To what, where: lady
This is exam question 4 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 demand | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demand | det |
| 5 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | compound |
| 6 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 transforming | mark |
| 8 | transforming | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 demand | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transforming | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transforming | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 demand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | gerund | the Demon demand not said here | the lady | into a young woman result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent lady=Patient into woman=Result |
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
Five hundred roubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 roubles | nummod |
| 3 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three hundred roubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 roubles | nummod |
| 3 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten roubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 roubles | nummod |
| 2 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A thousand kopecks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kopecks | nummod |
| 3 | kopecks | kopeck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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