Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

What quality was attributed to the glance of the Servian Vy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Servian Vy · What happens: attribute, glance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» 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	4 attributed	nsubj:pass
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attributed	aux:pass
4	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 glance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glance	det
7	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Vy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Vy	det
10	Servian	Servian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Vy	compound
11	Vy	Vy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 glance	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attributed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	past · passive						to the glance of the Servian Vy	tree rules
2	glance		the Servian Vy						nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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

Such lethality that anyone who met it died instantly, as of a basilisk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lethality	amod
2	lethality	lethality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 died	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anyone	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	obj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 basilisk	punct
11	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 basilisk	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 basilisk	det
14	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past		lethality					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	die	past	Such lethality					as a basilisk; instantly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Brightness, like a candle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 candle	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 candle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brightness	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lethality, as of a basilisk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lethality	lethality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 basilisk	punct
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 basilisk	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basilisk	det
6	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lethality	conj

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

Option 4

Lethality, as of a basilisk, shared with all of its kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lethality	lethality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 basilisk	punct
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 basilisk	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basilisk	det
6	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lethality	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shared	punct
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lethality	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 shared	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kin	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kin	nmod:poss
13	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle		Lethality and a basilisk not said here				with all	tree rules

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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