Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

On which hand does the Prince wave the handkerchief to narrow the bridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, wave · To what, where: hand, handkerchief

This is exam question 3 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wave	nsubj
7	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 handkerchief	det
9	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 narrow	mark
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 handkerchief	amod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bridge	det
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 narrow	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present				which hand			tree rules
2	wave	present	the Prince	the handkerchief					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=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 right answer

the left hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the right hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the hand he uses to hold the reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 uses	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reins	det
8	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the hand						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hold	to-infinitive	the hand not said here	the reins					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme

Option 4

his other hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	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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