Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…

By what means did Koshchei depart from the chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: mean, depart · To what, where: chamber

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 depart	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 depart	aux
5	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 depart	nsubj
6	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chamber	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chamber	det
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depart	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 depart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	depart	past · do-support	Koshchei			the chamber			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location

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

As a thundering storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 storm	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 storm	det
3	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 storm	compound
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

As a terrible whirlwind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 whirlwind	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whirlwind	det
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whirlwind	amod
4	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

As a terrible whirlwind that tore through the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 whirlwind	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whirlwind	det
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whirlwind	amod
4	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whirlwind	acl:relcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	a terrible whirlwind			the roof			tree rules

Option 4

As a terrible whirlwind of dust and wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 whirlwind	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whirlwind	det
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whirlwind	amod
4	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dust	case
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whirlwind	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wind	cc
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whirlwind	conj

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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