Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

What was the ultimate outcome for the Aged One's captive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ultimate outcome

This is exam question 4 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	5 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 captive	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 One	det
8	Aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 One	amod
9	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 captive	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 One	case
11	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate outcome				for the Aged One's captive	tree rules

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

He was sent on a long errand and never came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 errand	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 errand	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 errand	amod
7	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		He		a long errand			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was sent on an errand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 errand	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 errand	det
6	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		He		a errand			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

He was locked away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 locked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 locked	aux:pass
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 locked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock away	past · passive		He				away property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

He was sent to hell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 hell	case
5	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		He		hell			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hell=Destination

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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