Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…

What quantity of water did Koshchei consume before he regained his strength?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity, Koshchei · What happens: consume, regain · To what, where: strength

This is exam question 2 of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his 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 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consume	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 consume	aux
6	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 consume	nsubj
7	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 regained	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 regained	nsubj
10	regained	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 consume	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 strength	nmod:poss
12	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regained	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 consume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	past · do-support	what quantity of water						vn consume-66 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal
2	regain	past	Koshchei	Koshchei's strength					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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

Two bucketfuls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bucketfuls	nummod
2	bucketfuls	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three bucketfuls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bucketfuls	nummod
2	bucketfuls	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three large bucketfuls of cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bucketfuls	nummod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bucketfuls	amod
3	bucketfuls	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bucketfuls	nmod

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

Option 4

Four bucketfuls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bucketfuls	nummod
2	bucketfuls	bucketful	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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