Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…
What object did Ivan deposit with the Falcon as a token?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: deposit
This is exam question 4 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 deposit | obj |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deposit | aux |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | nsubj |
| 5 | deposit | deposit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Falcon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Falcon | det |
| 8 | Falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 token | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 token | det |
| 11 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deposit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | past · do-support | object | with the Falcon; as a token | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
A silver spoon left as a keepsake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoon | compound |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spoon | acl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 keepsake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 keepsake | det |
| 7 | keepsake | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a silver spoon not said here | as a keepsake | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A golden ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A silver spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoon | compound |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A small silver spoon from his own house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spoon | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoon | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | compound |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | nmod |
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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