Exam question 3 · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

What relation did the meadow, cushions, apple-tree and spring bear to the Snake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: relation · What happens: do · To what, where: meadow

This is exam question 3 of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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 relation	det
2	relation	relation	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 meadow	det
5	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cushions	punct
7	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meadow	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 apple	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meadow	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bear	cc
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bear	compound
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meadow	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Snake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Snake	det
17	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what relation	the meadow and cushions and apple tree and spring bear				to the Snake	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Eventuality

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

They were his servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 servants	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 servants	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servants	nmod:poss
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his servants					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were the daughters of the Snake's first wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 daughters	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughters	det
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 wife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Snake	det
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Snake	case
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	the daughters				of the Snake's first wife	tree rules

Option 3

They were cursed daughters whom the Snake had turned into the landscape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 daughters	cop
3	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 daughters	amod
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 turned	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Snake	det
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 daughters	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 landscape	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 landscape	det
12	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	curse	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	They	cursed daughters		tree rules
3	turn	past · perfect	the Snake	cursed daughters	the landscape	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into landscape=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were his daughters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 daughters	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nmod:poss
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his daughters					tree rules

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