Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

What weight in poods was the iron rock recorded to possess in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: iron rock, weight · What happens: weight, be, record, possess · To what, where: poods, iron rock, narrative

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 weight	nsubj
2	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rock	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 poods	case
4	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weight	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rock	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rock	compound
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rock	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 possess	mark
11	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 recorded	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 narrative	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possess	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	weight		the iron rock		poods	tree rules
2	is a	past	weight	the iron rock		tree rules
3	record	participle		the iron rock not said here		tree rules
4	possess	to-infinitive			the narrative	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

So massive that many men could not shift it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 massive	advmod
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 shift	mark
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shift	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shift	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shift	advmod
8	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 massive	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shift	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 shift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shift	could	many men	it		all			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer it=Patient

Option 2

Heavy enough to block the whole mountain road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Heavy	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 block	mark
4	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Heavy	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 road	compound
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	to-infinitive		the whole mountain road					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme

Option 3

A hundred and sixty poods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 poods	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixty	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hundred and fifty poods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 poods	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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