Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…
Which creature was the first to be spared by Prince Ivan in the course of his journey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature, Prince Ivan, Ivan · What happens: be, spare, journey · To what, where: course
This is exam question 1 of lesson 432 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan wins Koshchei's death and brings the ring home» 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 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spared | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spared | aux:pass |
| 8 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 first | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Ivan | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ivan | compound |
| 11 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spared | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 course | det |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spared | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 course | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which creature | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive · passive | Prince Ivan | the course of Ivan's journey | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | journey | Ivan | nom journey «act transitive»: 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 right answer
the young wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the grey hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hare | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hare | amod |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/432-pg22373-part24/e1/