Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…
Which person was carried off by Koshchei the Deathless at the commencement of the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: carry off · To what, where: person, commencement
This is exam question 1 of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carried | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Koshchei | case |
| 7 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Deathless | det |
| 9 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Koshchei | appos |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 commencement | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 commencement | det |
| 12 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 narrative | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 narrative | det |
| 15 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commencement | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · passive | Koshchei | which person | the commencement of the narrative | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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
The king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The mother of Prince Ivan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ivan | case |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His sister
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 | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The brother of Prince Ivan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ivan | case |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | 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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