Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

Identify the witch who meets her death in the fiery river.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, witch, her · What happens: identify, meet, die · To what, where: witch, death, fiery river

This is exam question 1 of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 meets	nsubj
5	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 witch	acl:relcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 river	amod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the witch		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
2	meet	present	the witch	her death	the fiery river	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
3	die		her = she			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 old Raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Raven	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Raven	amod
3	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Koshchei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Baba Yaga

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Yaga	det
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Yaga	compound
3	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	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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