Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…
Which of the following identifies the location to which the Eagle conveys the King?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: follow, identify, convey · To what, where: location, King
This is exam question 2 of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 identifies | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 identifies | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 5 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 location | det |
| 7 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identifies | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 conveys | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Eagle | det |
| 11 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 conveys | nsubj |
| 12 | conveys | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 location | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 conveys | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the location | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme | |||||
| 3 | convey | present | the Eagle | the King | the location | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to which=Recipient |
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 house of its youngest sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sister | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the house of the eldest sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sister | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the house of its youngest sister on the left side of the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sister | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 road | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a castle by the western sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 5 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sea | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 castle | 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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