Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets t…

Which folk-tale does the author cite as an instance of the Queen-Mother being abducted by the Whirlwind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folk, Whirlwind · What happens: do, abduct, instance · To what, where: author cite, Queen Mother

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 folk	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tale	punct
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 folk	conj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cite	det
7	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cite	compound
8	cite	cite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 instance	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 instance	det
11	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mother	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mother	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Queen	punct
16	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 instance	nmod
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 abducted	aux:pass
18	abducted	abduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Mother	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 Whirlwind	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Whirlwind	det
21	Whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abducted	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	which folk and tale	the author cite	as a instance of the Queen Mother	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cite=Eventuality
2	abduct	gerund · passive	the Whirlwind	the Queen Mother not said here		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	instance			the Queen Mother		nom instance «event transitive»: of=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 old tale of the Queen-Mother and the Whirlwind that the author recalls from childhood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recalls	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mother	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mother	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Queen	punct
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Whirlwind	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Whirlwind	det
11	Whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Mother	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 author	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 author	det
14	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Whirlwind	appos
15	recalls	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 childhood	case
17	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recalls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	present	the old tale of the Queen Mother and the Whirlwind			childhood			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from childhood=Source
2	tell		the Queen Mother and the Whirlwind						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The tale of Prince Arikad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Arikad	case
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Arikad	nmod:desc
5	Arikad	Arikad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell		Arikad Prince						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The story of Prince Koshchei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Koshchei	case
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Koshchei	nmod:desc
5	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod

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

Option 4

The story 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 story	det
2	story	story	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 story	nmod

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

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