Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

Which creature retrieved the Water of Death, the substance by which the scattered remains of Prince Ivan were rejoined?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, substance · What happens: retrieve, rejoin · To what, where: Water, scattered remains

This is exam question 2 of lesson 429 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain and revived, then tricks the Baba Yaga's mares and is helped by the creatures he spared» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retrieved	nsubj
3	retrieved	retrieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Water	det
5	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 retrieved	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Death	case
7	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Water	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 substance	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 substance	det
10	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Water	appos
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 rejoined	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 remains	det
14	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	15 remains	amod
15	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 rejoined	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ivan	case
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ivan	compound
18	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 remains	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rejoined	aux:pass
20	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 substance	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 retrieved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retrieve	past	which creature	the Water of Death					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	rejoin	past · passive	the substance	the scattered remains of Prince Ivan					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

the Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Raven	det
2	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Falcon	det
2	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kite	det
2	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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