Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…
How many marriages are recorded as having been celebrated following these events?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: record, celebrate, follow · To what, where: many marriages, events
This is exam question 4 of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 marriages | amod |
| 3 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 recorded | aux:pass |
| 5 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 celebrated | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 celebrated | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 9 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 recorded | advcl |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 celebrated | xcomp |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 events | det |
| 12 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 following | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 recorded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | many marriages | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | gerund · perfect · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | this events | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme |
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
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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