Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the…
Which objects did the Eagle bestow upon the King at the time of his departure?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: object, bestow, depart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 436 «Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the King opens the coffers and his son must be given up» 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 | 2 objects | nsubj |
| 2 | objects | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Eagle | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Eagle | det |
| 5 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | nsubj |
| 6 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 objects | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 departure | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 departure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 objects | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | present | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the Eagle | time | upon the King | tree rules | |||
| 3 | depart | Eagle | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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
Two coffers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 coffers | nummod |
| 2 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A boat alongside one coffer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 5 coffer | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 coffer | nummod |
| 5 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A carriage with three chests
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 chests | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 chests | nummod |
| 5 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A ship accompanied by two coffers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ship | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 coffers | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 coffers | nummod |
| 6 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accompanied | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | a ship not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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