Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets t…

In what manner did the bridegroom's eldest brother react upon observing the procession returning together?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest brother · What happens: do, react, observe, return · To what, where: manner, procession

This is exam question 2 of lesson 433 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets to the church first and marries the bride» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridegroom	det
6	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bridegroom	case
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 react	nsubj
10	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 observing	mark
12	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 react	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 procession	det
14	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observing	obj
15	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 observing	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 returning	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			what manner		tree rules
2	react	present	the bridegroom's eldest brother				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	gerund	the bridegroom's eldest brother not said here	the procession			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent procession=Topic
4	return	gerund	the bridegroom's eldest brother not said here			together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

He withdrew shamefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 withdrew	nsubj
2	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shamefully	shamefully	ADV	_	2 withdrew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	withdraw	past	He					shamefully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	He						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He retired ignominiously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 retired	nsubj
2	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ignominiously	ignominiously	ADV	_	2 retired	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	He					ignominiously property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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