Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

Which event brings about the downfall of the Baba Yaga?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: event · What happens: bring

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 event	det
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	nsubj
3	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 downfall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 downfall	det
6	downfall	downfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Yaga	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Yaga	det
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Yaga	compound
10	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 downfall	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	which event					about the downfall of the Baba Yaga	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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

She falls asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 falls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	She					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The river rises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	the river						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bridge breaks in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridge	det
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 two	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 breaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the bridge			two			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location

Option 4

The mares run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mares	det
2	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	present	the mares					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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